Sydney is so dry right now, most grass has turned to scratchy yellow straw, or simply to dirt. The other thing, obviously, that no one has heard in Sydney of late is the pitter-patter of rain. But Sydney has just 10 rain days in the last 100 days, from late June to now. As we wrote early in 2016 when we were frustrated by a cricket Test ruined by rain in Sydney, Sydney is in fact Australia's second wettest capital city. Sydney has nothing like the seasonal variation of other southern capitals like Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth -- where winter rainfall substantially exceeds summer rainfall.

Source: Huffington Post October 04, 2017 00:45 UTC