Smoke from bushfires in Victoria has made it all the way to New Zealand

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I just noticed that one of the plants we recently bought from the nursery has been agressively pruned. Knowing that nobody would cut so much off a bottlebrush we just brought home, I had my suspicions and checked the webcam. The culprit has been identified.

The onshore airflow is dominant in Katoomba tonight. Given how cool and overcast it's become, I'm expecting mist and drizzle overnight.

And the Bureau of Meteorology's radar derived 24 hour rain totals

I was talking to someone yesterday and said that the overnight rain would be an all or nothing event. But I didn't expect it to play out quite like this, with virtually nothing falling over the Blue Mountains. Kind of interesting from an atmospheric dynamics perspective.