The Australian info Broken Hill got nearly half its annual rains overall on the weekend, breaking a 63-year-old record. Key points:Broken Hill’s 1961 January rain record hasactually been brokenRoads flooded throughout storms on the weekendThe rain is more than welcome for graziers in the areaMore than 100 millimetres of rain fell on Saturday and Sunday, goingbeyond the overall the wilderness city got in the previous 6 months. Broken Hill’s drain system was not developed to manage big volumes of rain there were reports of sewage spilling out. Roads flooded and power was lost in the town of Silverton. Telstra services in Broken Hill knowledgeable a significant failure on Sunday. There were more than 1,000 lightning strikes tape-recorded in Broken Hill in the area of 24 hours.(Supplied: Vlatko’s Photography) The previous single-day January record of 75.2mm, which was set in 1961, was eclipsed by the 85mm tape-recorded at the airport on Sunday. Broken Hill’s averages 27.7mm of rain in January, its wettest month, and the yearly typical is about 225mm. Long-term resident Jesse Edwards stated the lightning storm was the larg
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