In the last two and a half days we have had 125mm of rain and it is now pouring hard so we could easily get up to 150 or even 175mm! That's a fantastic amount and the weather system that has bought is stationary atop Armidale and has been for three days. Usually our weather systems move rapidly from east to west but the present one is immobile and, more importantly feeding moist air from the Arafura Sea - look that up on Google. All the river systems in northern NSW are now in flood, but, as I've said before, Armidale is near the great divide at an altitude of about 1000m and the water runs away fast from the headwaters of the streams. It's dark now, so we cannot run out and have a look at the creek in flood. I'll do that in the morning for I suspect that we're witnessing the highest stream flow in the 40 years I have been here.
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