THE power may be out but spirits are up as the rain continues to fall at Bourke.
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Bourke Shire mayor Andrew Lewis said the sky was overcast and there was a bit of green on show after last week’s falls.
“I wouldn’t say it’s broken the drought but it’s put a bend in it,” Cr Lewis said.
He said there was a power outage in the region for which the energy company had not yet found the fault.
A spokeswoman for Essential Energy confirmed the power outage was reported at 10.30am this morning and was affecting an area from Nyngan to Bourke.
She said field crews had patrolled the line and tried to reset it but the power was still out.
She said she will provide more information when it came to hand.
According to Weatherzone meteorologist Ben McBurney as well as 25 millimetres overnight, 60mm had fallen from 9am in parts of Bourke. It’s the first time the area has seen above average rainfall since June last year.
“That’s on top of the 30mm they received a week and a half ago,” he said.
“From about 3am it’s really been coming down and in the last few hours since midday they’ve seen quite a bit of rain.”
And to continue the good news, Mr McBurney said some parts of the State could see isolated falls of up to 100mm as two troughs linger over NSW, with the inland trough likely to spread east delivering some much-needed wet stuff to the likes of Parkes and Orange.
“Tomorrow is going to be quite interesting as we have two separate systems working here,” Mr McBurney said.
The coastal trough saw more than 200mm of rain dumped over parts of the Central Coast overnight. Corranbong received the heaviest rain it’s seen in any month since 1990.
Showers are expected to continue through tomorrow (Saturday) and while the rain will become lighter on Sunday, western NSW areas could have storms and more downpours on Monday.
The State’s south should be in line for a dampening mid week then all eyes will be on the Queensland coast where a tropical cyclone could deliver more rain to the south.
Do you have a wet weather photo? What's in your rain gauge? Send it to jenna.cairney@fairfaxmedia.com.au
Jenna Cairney
Deputy editor of The Land.
Deputy editor of The Land.
