Has it really been that long? On April 3, 1973, the first mobile phone call was made in downtown Manhattan, NYC by Motorola employee Martin Cooper to the Bell Labs headquarters in New Jersey.

March has proven to be a wet month for Narrabri with almost 190mm recorded at the Bureau of Meteorology’s Narrabri Airport station. But it’s nothing compared to the wettest March on record … 510.3mm in 1894. March 1894 is also Narrabri’s wettest month ever recorded. February 1878 comes in at second place with 362.8mm. March 1898 experienced eight days of heavy rainfall while in February 1878 it was five days. 1890 was the heaviest rainfall year at 1311.5mm while 2019 was the driest at 206.2mm.

Clocks go back an hour on Sunday, April 6. That means winter is near. However, don’t get the doona out yet. The Bureau of Meteorology outlook for April to June says above average daily temperatures are very likely (greater than 80 per cent chance), as well as above normal overnight temperatures, for most of Australia. “Rainfall is expected to be within the typical range for April to June across most of Australia, but above average across areas of the far north and east, and below average for parts of far south.”