Sorry all perhaps it was the fact that I trundled around 3 states in the last 4 weeks travelling about 6200 km's with my 4" refractor and GEM with family and trailer in tow
No joke, here was the status:
- Sydney to Melbourne (AFL grand final weekend):
rain, hail, wind
- On to Ballarat: cloudy
- On to Port Jarvis then Kangaroo Island, SA:
cloudy,windy,rain
- On to Adelaide: cloudy, rain
- On to North Flinders Ranges:
4 clear nights around new moon 
- On to Broken Hill:
scattered cloud then rain
- And the rain followed us home to Sydney last weekend
