A strange summer for weather.

This has been a really strange summer for weather…it has been wet, wet, wet and then a bit dry and then wet again.

Yesterday was nice, but the two days before that gave us about 100 mls of rain. This morning was nice, but this afternoon a line of storms has gone over with more heavy rain. We are noticing that the showers seem to be more intense too and the drainage in the house can’t cope with it all.

 

Beside the lounge window is this little garden. When it rains there is often some runnoff along the front but today after just a few minutes the whole garden was awash.

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A couple of days ago we went for a drive along Michigan Drive.

It was pouring down there.

Water pouring off the roof to a little channel along the stone wall.

It was coming down in buckets.

One of the nice things about the storms coming over is that they only last an hour or two and then are gone, although it looks like another line will come over later on. Especially noticeable are the birds, or lack of. As the thunder gets closer all the birds disappear. I guess they all have their places of shelter to go to. Then sometimes, as happened today, large flocks of them will come around the house, get into the tops of the trees and sway around with the trees, fluffing and flapping their wings to get a good bath. I remember once seeing a flock of sulphur crested cockatoos in a storm, and they were hanging upside down in the pouring rain, screeching and flapping, having a great old time.