Of course this cartoon is both an exaggeration and a generalisation. It is based the BOM Ballarat rainfall recording for January, which was just 4% of the average rainfall. While the Otway’s experienced extreme localised flooding due to thunderstorm activity Ballarat and the rest of Southwestern Victoria recorded record low rainfalls. Even last year, which had an extremely low rainfall throughout the summer did not record such a low rainfall as this.
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