Today's lead news item in Melbourne: it's raining

[Kingswood]

Today's lead news item in Melbourne this morning: it rained during the night.

This doesn't sound like much, but it is helpful to have some perspective.

Climate change and the scarcity of water has been a big issue in Australia in the last year or two. Recent news items in Melbourne have discussed the low amount of water in the reservoirs, the prospect of stage 4 water restrictions, the "thousand year" drought (the worst drought in a millennium), the record lowest rainfall in a 12-month period, the unprecedented prospect of irrigators on the Murray river having no water by August, and various other news items related to the recent scarcity of water and the current (or possibly just-broken) severe drought.

So it is good news that some substantial rain has fallen with more forecast for the next week after a couple of days of soaking rains in March and April. This weekend is going to be a wet weekend and we don't mind a bit.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems...5/s1926350.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems...5/s1926294.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems...5/s1926152.htm
http://www.theage.com.au/news/nation...995363370.html