Southern Australia has been moving into drought conditions again with very low Summer/Autumn rainfalls, the Hume Dam on the Murray river near here (5 times the capacity of Sydney Harbour) under 24% capacity. All last night and this morning there's been good steady rain, haven't heard a quantity yet but the forecasts had been for 25-50mm (1 to 2 inches). If we can get more like this over coming weeks we'll be very glad.