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Another sunny day, but there's still a cold breeze so it's warm but not very warm yet. This time of year does often have some good weather, and perhaps bears out the old rhyme 'March Winds and April Showers bring forth May Flowers'

This is a view looking along the canal about 10 minutes walk from where I live:

Gloucester Canal 17 May 2020

mific

We've had some rain although it was fine for the last two days. But the drought was so bad that there's no sign yet of the reservoirs refilling. I took this pic yesterday at the Nihotupu dam near where I live, and it's still really low - the water should be overflowing that concrete spillway lip.
I gather they're piping water from the Waikato river for the city, but it means there are water restrictions. Messages about that have gotten lost in all the pandemic furore, unfortunately. It's a bit cooler now - edging into cardigan or light jacket weather.

( pic here... )

mific

Too much of a good thing. Still warm and hardly any rain, just a couple of brief, light showers, and we're in an officially declared "severe drought". My local reservoir, the Nihotupu dam, is really low. Usually the water's right at the lip of the concrete spillway and cascading down, but it's well below the spillway lip now. I've seen it a little worse, about 20 years ago in a massive heatwave and drought during an El Nino, but we haven't had a dry patch like this since then, that I can recall. The grassy stuff on the right is reeds, but on the left that's grass, showing how long it's been dry.
How's it going for you guys in the chillier parts of the world? Hope the iguanas are holding on okay.

( pics here )

tielan

There's a joke that goes:

Australia; the only country on Earth where the second-lowest fire danger is classified as 'HIGH'.

Ten days ago, Sydney had it's first day under a 'CATASTROPHIC' fire danger rating (LOW-MODERATE, HIGH, VERY HIGH, SEVERE, EXTREME, CATASTROPHIC).

This is what the world looked like around 5pm that day, with smoke from the fires up north, and the city hushed in uncertainty:

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Ten days later, while sections of NSW are still quite very much on fire, and parts of Victoria have caught fire, Sydney has had a cool change come through.

There's a little bit of rain - not even enough to fill the small water tank, though.

( today's weather in contrast )

The cooler weather should be sticking around Sydney for a week (where 'cooler' right now means 23-33C, yes, I know) with intermittent showers. It's not the steady rain we need, but we'll take it over CATASTROPHIC fire days anytime!

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