![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/once-a-comfort-rain-is-now-ruining-australias-mood/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/127404484_gettyimages-592521165.jpg&description=Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Sydney broke its annual rainfall record in October"It feels like Groundhog Day. I wake up and it's raining, dark and cold, over and over and over again."Rebecca Gray feels like it has rained all year in Sydney, Australia. She's not far off the mark.The city has seen about 170 days of rain so far in 2022 - there have been more rainy days than dry ones. And with almost a quarter of the year still to go, Sydney broke its annual rainfall record last month."It's not like we've just scraped in," said Tom Saunders, a meteorologist at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. "The record has been obliterated. I've never seen anything like it."More than 2.3m (7.5 feet) of rain has fallen on the city - three times the annual average in London. It's been a similar story across the rest of Australia's eastern states. Repeated, widespread flooding across all four of them has left thousands of homes uninhabitable and killed more than 30 people this year. Just this past week, two people died as towns in central western New South Wales (NSW) went underwater. The Bureau of Meteorology says the weather is being driven by several phenomena, including the La Nina pattern which, in Australia, increases the likelihood of rain and cyclones.It has warned another dangerous couple of months are ahead. With catchments already sopping wet, any downpours could trigger more widespread flooding for eastern and northern Australia.Australia often likes to boast it has warm, sunny beach weather all year round. But this year the country has looked more like humid Singapore, or rainy Cardiff.Many Australians - like Ms Gray - can feel it dampening their spirits. "Some days I just don't want to get out of bed," she says, adding that, because of the rain, seeing friends takes much more effort, exercise is confined to indoors, hanging washing out on the line is basically impossible, and the house feels perpetually damp. "It looks like we've had a new interior design){kind=link}
“It feels like Groundhog Day. I wake up and it’s raining, dark and cold, over and over and over again.”
Rebecca Gray feels like it has rained all year in Sydney, Australia. She’s not far off the mark.
The city has seen about 170 days of rain so far in 2022 – there have been more rainy days than dry ones. And with almost a quarter of the year still to go, Sydney broke its annual rainfall record last month.
“It’s not like we’ve just scraped in,” said Tom Saunders, a meteorologist at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. “The record has been obliterated. I’ve never seen anything like it.”
More than 2.3m (7.5 feet) of rain has fallen on the city – three times the annual average in London. It’s been a similar story across the rest of Australia’s eastern states. Repeated, widespread flooding across all four of them has left thousands of homes uninhabitable and killed more than 30 people this year. Just this past week, two people died as towns in central western New South Wales (NSW) went underwater.