The current wet weather

Well, less than a month ago I did some amateur speculation based on looking at sea surface temperatures, and wondered if we were about to get some heavy rain once the monsoon kicked in.

Seems my speculation might have been right - there has been widespread rain, but most is associated with storm-like systems, resulting in very high intensity falls but uneven distribution.

The weather bureau has been pointing out that because of this uneven distribution, it is exactly "drought breaking" rainfall, and I wondered Toowoomba's dam levels to see how they are doing:

Yeah, there's a long way to go to get to full dams up that way.

I was also surprised to see how poorly those dams have done in the last 4 or so years: