This is extremely unusual weather for this time of year. Record...

This is extremely unusual weather for this time of year. Record breaking, in fact.

And if Ag Dept's observations are correct, Ravensthorpe had 120mm (nearly 5 inches in the old parlance) of rain in the last 24 hours, most of it falling in about 4 hours (that's not good for flash flooding).

A chart of a different kind below...