Rain Shadow
This morning, my neighbour contacted me about the rainfall to see how much we had had, saying it had been raining at his property all morning. We hadn’t even had enough to register on the rain gauge which records everything over 0.5mm! We were both surprised at the difference 4km makes. We are on the edge of a ridge on Whicher Range and west of the Naturaliste Ridge, so we do seem to suffer with some rain shadow. Sometimes these are even visible on the rain radar, showing as a lighter patch halfway between Busselton and Margaret River. So far today, Busselton has received 37mm and we got 24mm, so we both fell within the forecast range of 20-40mm. The upside of the clear skies over the property is that 
we see lots of rainbows.
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