Hi  Paul,  Birdsville probably as you have never seen it.
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/03/16/3165903.htm
     Here in Charleville we have had aprox 117 mm of rain (nearly 5
 inches) since Wednesday night. Almost every river in western Queensland
 is in flood.
       John Burey.

  Hi   Paul,   I know you like seeing inland Australia, try looking up

 In Birdsville it is expected. Too bad about Brisban.
 Looks like Global raining.
 It is lightly raining here in in SoCal too. Rather unusual this late
 in the winter. The hills look like Ireland almost.

 Paul Lamar

Hi  Paul, Must be unusual in SoCal. when I was there in 2002 about 20
miles from coast everything was brown, that was end of May.
    John

Our river is up too but not over the banks yet.

Paul Lamar