It's Been Raining In Brisbane

Over the last several days, and it's likely to continue, since that high pressure system between New Zealand and Australia is staying put over the next week.

Nevertheless, the new rain hasn't been enough yet to bring lake levels higher at Lake Wivenhoe, which stores water for the entire city, and now sits at an alarmingly-low 20% of full storage.

A whole city. At 20%.....

Right now, by grabbing a ruler and holding it against the monitor and doing a linear extrapolation, the city is on schedule to run out of water in about a year. And the eastern Australian drought has been bad enough that that dread day may actually arrive.....