We're still in a draught here in NSW and winery is meant to be our wet season. I'm lucky here up on the hillside because we are often in low cloud at night. So despite the freezing conditions it is usually damp in the morning which is keeping the soil damp. It's warm enough most days for grass/crops to grow but like I said we're lucky. My tanks tanks are full but the two dams to the side of me are virtually dry. The same applies all around us. They should be full and the local lakes have water in them, but they are dry. You could in theory walk across them. Ironic because there are several memorials to entire families who drowned on these lakes decades ago. Today you're more likely to die from dehydration trying to cross the lake.
Most farmers can't even keep grass alive here now even in winter. They now have to plant winter crops, usually wheat or similar, for their animals to eat. Even here with the low clouds watering the ground ever so slightly, they have to plough and sew field after field. Further inland the situation is even worse. Only tbe first range of mountains and only on the sea side of those are getting regular rain and have rivers with water in them.
I'm back in the UK for the August bank holiday and am looking forward to it raining!
