General Rain

Cricket in Katoomba was washed out again on Saturday. Which meant my Katoomba Cricket Club fourth grade side missed out on a game. It had fined up by Sunday enough for our Third Grade side to play; unfortunately they lost. The Katoomba Cricket Club is a great little club, but I'm biased, being the secretary and all. It's a real battling club, being reformed in season 2003-2004 Our fourth grade side is known as the Krushers, taking it's name for the original name for Katoomba. I like the name 'The Crushers' - it sort of captures what Katoomba does to the human spirit. We have had 375mm - or 15 inches in the old money - of rain in November, nearly four times the monthly average. On top of that the rain has been coming with the sort of humid storms we associate with February. This sort of thing prompts a lot of chin rubbing and "hasn't the weather been strange lately" type comments. It certainly isn't the sort of weather traditionally associated with November. One of the offshoots of this global warming phenomenon is the resultant increase in the flies. They've been astonishing in their fecundity. And the rain surge is not helping our cricket. And the forecast? More of the same apparently.