Elias looked out at his paddocks. A few hours ago, they were a graveyard of parched earth. Now, they were becoming a shallow sea. "Here in the Red Centre, rain is a miracle. We go years with nothing but heat shimmers and hope. The ground gets so hard it forgets what water feels like. But when it does come, like today, it comes all at once. The desert doesn't just drink; it wakes up. By tomorrow, those brown plains will be covered in wildflowers you didn't even know were hiding in the dirt."
Here is the breakdown of Australia’s complex relationship with water. does it rain a lot in australia