The rain

[MP_]

My grass is brown from lack of winter rain.

Yeah it’s been a bad season

 

[MatthewB]

My grass is brown from lack of winter rain.

same here, started to fertilise and pumping water into it

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Another rain bomb coming into SEQ

 

[peternorth]

Another rain bomb coming into SEQ

always rains in qld

 

[Billy ray]

Dry at my place

 

[Big Sauce 21]

ended up with about 10 drops. Stopped and went north.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

ended up with about 10 drops. Stopped and went north.

That often happens when “rain bombs” are forecast by the Bureau of Maybeology.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Darwin - 1986mm
Brisbane - 1605mm
Sydney - 1446mm
Perth - 613mm
Hobart - 603mm
Melbourne - 591mm
Canberra - 567mm
Adelaide - 346mm

Yearly Totals for Capitals

 

[peternorth]

Darwin - 1986mm
Brisbane - 1605mm
Sydney - 1446mm
Perth - 613mm
Hobart - 603mm
Melbourne - 591mm
Canberra - 567mm
Adelaide - 346mm

Yearly Totals for Capitals

Nice. Funny how many say it always rains in Melbourne. And maybe Hobart.

 

[peternorth]

Fair bit of rain in Melbourne yesterday. Refreshing.

 

[The Golden Glenferrie]

Nice. Funny how many say it always rains in Melbourne. And maybe Hobart.

Used to rain alot. Now barely at all.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Nice. Funny how many say it always rains in Melbourne. And maybe Hobart.

Was close to the yearly average as well I think. Seems about right, Plenty of showery days throughout the year but never much in them.

 

[Chief]

Nice. Funny how many say it always rains in Melbourne. And maybe Hobart.

The Brisbane rain was over two days. The Melbourne rain is distributed evenly throughout the year. In Melbourne. Which, to be fair, makes it FEEL like it's much more rain.

 

[Gough]

I remember rain.

 

[Ljp86]

Nice. Funny how many say it always rains in Melbourne. And maybe Hobart.

Melbourne and Hobart have no climatological dry period across the year, rainfall in summer is around the same mark as winter. The other six Australian capital cities all have an identifiable dry period. Melbourne also has a lot of rain days per year and is Australia's cloudiest capital city.

Both Melbourne and Hobart also have the least amount of sunshine hours per year out of all of Australia's capital cities which only further adds to the perception.