Wow, the volume of rain smashing Sydney has been huge. Is it your wetest year?
2022 was our wettest year (so far)
Is a test match starting up there today or something?
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I’m on the Sunshine Coast where it is also raining again/still.
Lawn turns to mud when you step on it.
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Does it ever stop bloody raining here? The test isn’t even on this week 
. Working in the concrete industry I can assure you that not much construction has happened in Sydney or NSW this month.
Also this is a photo of our local oval
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Much much less than 1% of Melbourne’s sky is currently covered by rain clouds.
I know. Our CEO keeps smashing us about how well our Victorian business is performing compared to us!
Just looked - Melbourne for August has had 18.4mm - Sydney has had 7 individual days with more than 18.4mm of rain - thus far in August with today likely to make it 8.
It’s been a desperately dry year in Melb though, not a typical comparison. Average August rainfall here is 50mm, we’re almost 3/4 of the way through the month and we’re well under half that.
Last few years we’ve had wet springs after a dry first 6 months of the year, might be a climate change driven pattern. So I’m hoping we’ll get some decent rain before summer, cos if we don’t it’s going to be absolutely brutal. I think reservoirs etc are in an ok state for now, but we’re going to see mass destruction of plant life and very serious fire risk.
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BOM are predicting a wet spring, so probably not for a while.
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When did rain in Sydney become news?
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So much rain. Ridiculous
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What is this Sydney you speak of?
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I was in Sydney 18-28 August, and the first week, we had 3 days of 20mm and 1 of 80mm. Don’t recall the first day but apparently it started as the plane landed. Cleared up for the last 5 days and was pretty pleasant the last 5 days. Not hot, not humid…about 21 degrees.
Yeah, the last couple of months it’s either been biblical, or ideal. Sydney can’t seem to strike a happy medium lately.
And yet, Vic we have dropping water levels and the desal working. Some areas still in drought.
Crazy that this happens only a few hundred kms apart.
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Wish we could send some your way!
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You’re welcome! 
Bloody hell. In Melbourne’s outer east we haven’t had that much in the last three months combined.
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