Top totals in some parts of state as trough delivers on rain promise

John Ellicott
Updated January 17 2020 - 11:28am, first published 11:00am
With Rosie the kelpie acting as water overseer, grazier Lachlan Gall had a microdump of rain near Broken Hill that saw ten foot of water added to his main tank supply. There were other scattered good falls around the Far West. The bulk of the rain so far has fallen in the central to northern and coastal areas of NSW with a number of other storm bursts coming until Monday .Photo courtesy of Lachan Gall.
With Rosie the kelpie acting as water overseer, grazier Lachlan Gall had a microdump of rain near Broken Hill that saw ten foot of water added to his main tank supply. There were other scattered good falls around the Far West. The bulk of the rain so far has fallen in the central to northern and coastal areas of NSW with a number of other storm bursts coming until Monday .Photo courtesy of Lachan Gall.

It's rain worth jumping for throughout much of central and northern NSW with some of the hardest drought-hit places such as Yeoval in the central-west and Moree in the north-west getting 50mm downpours.

John Ellicott

John Ellicott

senior journalist

journalist and author

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