Yeah well, we need something to fill the TV airtime between the end of the news and the start of tabloid current affairs programmes. Cheap at half the price.

But really, we're a big country. It was raining here in Adelaide whilst the outer hamlets of Melbourne were burning hot (literally). We're not some little island in the Atlantic 1/30th the size of Australia where the weather is either "rain" or "about to rain" :-)