While the official recording of rainfall was 5mm over the first weekend of November, Keith Morrell, of Prince Street, had his rain gauge overflowing at 25mm. Mr Morrell had to flood-proof his back shed and carport to stop the rain washing them out.

“I had enough water in my back yard to throw out a fishing line,” he said. Mr Morrell said he had spoken to people who live close to him who received just as much rain, but people in other areas had missed out.

“It is very unusual, it missed half of Pirie,” he said. “The people in Risdon Park would have been surprised.”

He said there were two heavy showers during the night that “knocked every rose off of my bushes” and he thinks it was “just one of those freak things”, but Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Paul Lainio said it isn’t so unusual.

He said during showers or thunderstorms, it rains from individual clouds rather than sheet cloud producing normal rain.

“You can get enormous differences,” he said.

“You may see a shower over your neighbor’s house and you won’t be getting any.”

He said that when it showers or storms from individual clouds, it can do so on individual houses.

PHOTO: RAINING…Keith Morrell, of Prince Street, was shocked to find out Port Pirie’s official rainfall from the first weekend in November was a lot less than he registered at his gauge at home.