G'day,
51 mm rain over night and today. Paddocks are green and grass is still growing after all the rain we've had over the last few weeks. The cattle are very fat. We cut and bailed just before the first heavy rain shower came, but many in our district [Ballarat] got caught out. [There are 2000 small squares about 600 yards away up a hill side. The farmer cut 2500 and only managed to get 500 under cover before the first heavy 25mm fall. The bales have had at least 100 mm on them now. They're stuffed.]
It's been a pretty strange season given the weather folks - including the buxom Jane B, - have been talking about el Nino and the possibility of a drier summer. I'm happy for it to keep raining, but don't understand exactly what's happening.
Jim