Seriously, Australia, can we chuck the first half of this summer in the bin? Yesterday, all capital cities except Perth and Adelaide were getting rain with serious storm warnings and flash flooding expected in places that have already been drenched. Some of the stats this month are looking really weird – especially since most of us expected things to be hotter and drier after the officials predicted an El Niño climate pattern. It’s already the wettest start to the year in Melbourne since 1996, while Canberra hasn’t been this soaked in January since 1984. In some good news for anyone trying to hang out their washing – from tomorrow, things are looking dry in the southern states + Adelaide/Perth for about a week. But it’s wet in the NT and Queensland, and another cyclone is brewing off the coast…