We got 15 mls of very welcome rain last night.
The near-empty irrigation dam shows how much it was needed.
Now the pressure is off the irrigation and we might be able to stop watering for the season.
Last night’s fall brings us to a total of 27 mls – just over an inch in old money – for the month and about 50 mls this year, though still only 336 mls in the last 12 months which is well under the annual average of around 500 mls.
While the rain made a big difference to us because we’re irrigated, it wouldn’t have done much more than lay the dust on dryland farms and it was localised.
Totara, about 10 kilometres as the crow flies from us, received only 9 mls and our hill block at Waianakarua about 20 kms away got only 4 mls.
The downpour came with a thunderstorm which brought a lot of water in a very short time. We don’t complain about rain here so this is an obesrevation not a moan – it also brought a flood inside the conservatory which took three buckets and seven towels to mop up.
Memo to self: clean the spouting before it rains again.
Homepaddock 
We could have done with some of that. Still, your NEED for rain to grass up the farm is probably a bit more important than our DESIRE for rain to freshen up the golf course 🙂
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I had to call out the water truck yesterday. Would have been out by Monday. We’ve only had a few mls of misty rain here. Grass is still green though, but barely growing. Thankful that stock are about to take the big ride to the works. Time for some new smaller weaners or the like.
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