About time and all. Nary a drop of rain has fallen over the last month. With only 4 mm, 1/64", having fallen since January 1st. What with Perth's temperature yesterday reaching 39C - 102F, today's top will only reach 29C - 84F. Enough rain will fall today so as I will not need to water the garden.
The thunderstorm lightning struck three people, a 70-year-old man was struck and is in a serious but stable condition in hospital.
A Perth teenager has described the terrifying moment she was injured by a lightning strike on a school tennis court, saying she felt her "spine vibrate" after a bolt hit a nearby basketball hoop and ricocheted into her and a friend.
A house was struck by lightning and caught fire. Mandurah, Yanchep and Thornlie-Cockburn train lines were closed when signal boxes were damaged by lightning strikes. A maximum of 4mm accompanied the storm.
@Gusman Dry heat? That's what they say in Alberta Canada in the middle of winter at -40C... "oh, but it's a dry cold".
I remember a couple of summers back when a small town in the middle of the Canadian Rocky Mountains burnt to the ground when the temp hit 49C. Check out Lytton, British Columbia for the story.
