MELBOURNE/SYDNEY (Reuters) – A four-day rainstorm throughout Australia’s east coast has actually brought relief after months of devastating bushfires and years of dry spell, however also extensive storm damage and projections of more wild weather to come.
Pedestrians brave strong wind and rain in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, February 9,2020 REUTERS/Loren Elliott
The weekend drenching represented the greatest sustained run of rains in Sydney and surrounding areas for 30 years, splashing some bushfires and replenishing diminished dams across New South Wales, the nation’s most popular state.
Some rural areas received more rain in current days than they had in the entirety of the previous year – a startling and swift turnaround from the bushfires that have eliminated 33 people and damaged large parts of the east coast.
” It’s amazing what the odor of the rain can do to individuals’s spirits,” Ben Shields, the mayor of the inland city of Dubbo, informed Reuters on the phone.
Like many other rural towns, Dubbo has actually been beleaguered by duststorms and subjected to water limitations on the back of a three-year drought.
James Jackson, a sheep and cattle farmer in the drought-hit Guyra district some 500 k