Australian Forecasters Psyched Out

It looked like it was going to rain cats-and-dogs in the Brisbane area, and everyone forecast it, but everything depended on the presence of a eastward-moving upper-level trough passing through Quuensland. At tropical and semi-tropical locales, these troughs are often weak, and sometimes hard to detect. Still, everyone saw a weak trough passing through, and eagerly awaited the downpours.

Well, the trough wasn't there. Psyched! It rained, but not nearly as much as what people were hoping for.

Still, hope springs eternal. What, with that flux of tropical moisture from the northwest, anything seems possible....