Lately in Victoria we, and especially our gardens, have been suffering from the heat. We have had a long stretch of hot days and frankly we are sick of it!
The last few days have seen February set a heat record in Melbourne for the most days over 30-degrees (86°F) in the month. Apparently the average is about seven days above 30° in the month but until today we were up to about 14. Blah.
Last night a change was forecast but we failed to get too excited as we have been let down a few too many times in the past. The sky might darken and the thunder rolls but the humidity rises instead of the rain falling. Last night though it did actually cool down, and this morning I woke to the sounds of falling rain. Real rain! What a relief!
I think you can imagine which side of this 1910 cartoon my garden and I fall on 
Worker 1 Jan 1910 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70876686
I’m guessing you got the rain that has been inundating (again) the Queenslanders and the northern east coast of NSW… at least someone is happy
We had showers, rain, strong winds and incredible humidity* over the weekend but nothing like they had up north. I’m happy for your garden. Over Christmas when it was so hot that when it did rain I considered emulating the farmer in your cartoon… sometimes it’s just too hot. *Only a couple more days until Autumn, my favourite season 
The heat has been awful everywhere lately, hasn’t it!
Luckily we haven’t had the same extreme rain that they have been having up north but I just heard on the radio that heavy falls were forecast in the areas that have been burnt lately. That meant they were giving warnings to look out for landslides and loose debris along with the rain.
Autumn is one of my favourite times too
happy happy happy…
I love the rain after really hot days, here in Tas it is something quite different to the brilliant storms and light shows of NW Qld, and the smell. What is it about rain smell??
I love the rain smell too, I am sitting here with every window in the house open and the cold breeze blowing it through, wonderful! The dust has been washed off all the plants and it is like everything has become 10 shades brighter even though the sky is dark
Oh yeah, love the super brightness that comes after a rain. There is something so alive and renewed about everything.
I certainly have a spring in my step today!
Me doing happy dance too! I’ve felt so energized all day. No 774, no cricket, no boring blah blah, no checking the CFA website. I’ve been working and listening to /my/ beloved music since I woke up. Slept well too. Even the alpacas look happy as they snuffle around eating fresh grass as soon as it pokes its head into the air!
I have been listening to 774 on and off today, some places are in danger of an out of control fire and others are getting high winds or flash flooding and large hail warnings! Ahhh Victoria, we love you
The chooks were none too happy with the rain, they are still so young that rain is not a familiar thing for them and they seem quite offended by the lack of dust and sunbathing!
What a wonderful wake up the rain was this morning eh? Bring on Autumn I say!
I haven’t checked the status of the fires today but I thought I heard some areas in Gippsland got some rain where the fires were/are. I guess we think of Victoria as being pretty small but it’s the size of some countries so mixed weather makes sense.
You’re welcome to it! roads flooded more falling trees, beach erosion on both the Gold and the Sunshine Coast and my air con is set to permanent ‘de-humidify’ as I watch the corners of my books curl like fallen autumn leaves
I did think of you when I saw the news reports of more flooding up north. I can’t believe that some parts are having their fifth flood in a year…. So much for dry Australia! Your poor books
Listening to the radio after I posted this they were giving flood warnings and ‘an out of control bushfire is heading towards the town of … it is too late to leave your home, please stay off the roads and activate your bushfire plan’ warnings for Victoria all at the same time. When the weather changes it really lets loose doesn’t it!
It’s a shocker ain’t it? some poor people are being flooded for the fourth and fifth times in a couple of years. We had about four or five years of continuous drought when we first emigrated here, nothing as bad as Victoria seems to get though. I remember when I visited Melbourne at Xmas 2006 flying over and looking out of the airplane as we came in to land and just seeing swathes and swathes of dusty brown scenery, from the air it can be incomprehensible how vastly Australian weather can affect the landscape. All this rain has been conducive to being holed up in the Uni library getting some research done though!
I bet it has!
It is amazing how varied the weather can be just in Victoria, let alone the whole country. Our valley is beautiful and green most of the year but a few weeks of unrelenting heat and it browns off. Even after this rain I could dig a hole in the garden and the soil would be completely dry a few inches down. Our version of big rain is nothing compared to what real rain is in other parts of the country.
Here in the UK we are firmly on the left-hand-side of the cartoon and have been celebrating a week of no rain!
If only we could send it where we wanted it!
We had rain in my part of the UK last night, I definitely empathize with that cartoon!
It’s been stinking hot here in South Oz too but there’s promise of a few days of coolness, around 30, and maybe some rain. Yep… I too LUV
ooops… didn’t mean to post yet
… was saying I too LUV the smell of rain on the parched earth. Reminded me that, when teaching in Seattle, USA, where they predict “sun bursts” I was amused to see the 7 year olds rush to the window, when the sun came out, to gaze in wonder… Then back home I realised that our children do that too when the first of the rain comes. They looked in awe and loved tracing the raindrops down the window. One keen little fellow used to love to race outside and stand under the broken drain pipe to have a cool off 
… ha ha ha
I can’t imagine the kids being that happy to see the sun come out
We just got s nice rain too. Now the ground is all squishy.
That is the problem with living on a dirt road, our road goes all squishy too!
Haha, sounds like our backyard!
Still, I’m the clodhopper on the right side of the cartoon. After last year’s terrific dryness rain is always welcomed.