Northern Rivers is only the wettest place in NSW and is one of wettest place in Australia. We didn't have drought since 2002. Anyway, every year after and after keeps getting wetter here since then. We had some type of monsoon earlier this year brought over average rainfalls. We has several months of average rainfall esp Winter did. Oh yes, we started having thunderstorms in Winter too! Now that seems freaky which it stormy all year round for Northern Rivers. Storms did not quit thier occurances since 2004 best season. Hope something good for this storm season which had started yesterday!