Getting soggy?

There are various ways of getting wet.  One. exemplified here by a Superb fairy-wren, is to dunk yourself in a bird bath.
Another way is to visit an area with a weather forecast like this:
That was from the Elders website.  This map from the BoM, showing aggregate expected rainfall for the next 8 days, tells pretty much the same story.
For those not familiar with Australian geography, Mallacoota is on the Eastern edge of the purple splotch.  It may not get as much as the Victorian mountains (and much of their precipitation appears likely to be white and slippery, but it is obviously going to be very damp at the Coast.

In an exchange of badinage our friend who owns the place at which we stay pointed out that if we mowed the lawn to watch out for stranded fish: apparently they jam the catcher!

We have deferred for a week.

As it happened:
The Wednesday was very drizzly at Carwoola (9.9mm) but not much seemed to fall during the day at Mallacoota.  However by 6am on Thursday they had scored 50.8mm which is pretty much on the money!

 At noon on Thursday the BoM weather included a Flood Watch alert  
  • "Scattered showers increasing to rain in the evening have been forecast for East Gippsland catchments during Thursday. Rain with heavy falls has been forecast for Friday. Rainfall totals of up to 30 mm have been forecast for Thursday and up to 100 mm have been forecast for Friday for the East Gippsland catchments with higher isolated totals possible.
  • The forecast rainfall is expected to lead to minor to moderate flooding across the East Gippsland catchments from late Thursday. If the rainfall totals are in the upper range of the forecast then areas of major flooding may develop.
Overall, on Thursday the town scored 10mm with a further 23mm coming on the Friday.  

 Heyfield, the haunt of Gouldiae is a bit west of Mallacoota and has been getting a nice lot of rain.

 As the radar for Canberra has crapped out it is a bit hard to tell what is happening here.  I did enjoy the mixed messages evident on the BoM website about this (click on image for a readable version)!

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