It’s raining! Yippee! It rained the night before last, and again last night, and now the sky is covered in thick lead-grey clouds and it’s raining again. There hasn’t been enough rainfall to make a difference to the catchments but parched rural areas have received desperately needed millimetres.

From The Age: “Absolutely magnificent — it’s about 33 years since we’ve had rain like that,” said Grampians-Wimmera water board member Frank McClelland. “Our tanks are overflowing.” He said the rain would be “an enormous relief to the town (of Horsham) — you’ve got no idea, people were getting frightened”.

Has the drought broken? No. As the article says, it’ll take more than this. But even a crack is something. A respite, at least, and some time gained.