Looks like some good rainfall totals across the whole district this month...How good is Chillagoe..!..

So going by the neighbor overthe hills gauge behind El Arish ..420mm in the past 4 days and 750mm for the month over 23 wet days...

We may even get a dry day today..was planning a couple of days a the reef but the weather is just a little too volitile and I'm told old to get caught in a lightning storm out there..particularly after having a very close strike that blew up some appliances and fuse on the house several weeks back..

What was strange was the storm front was many Km's away and just out of nowhere the hair stood up and I felt a kind of air vaccuum and huge thunder and strike....scared the [censored]out of us..

I guess it could be worse..I was talking to a fella I know that has pre-booked a holiday later this week..a good time to go and escape some of the wet-season he thought....only problem was, unfortunately, the holiday is in Auckland...