With no rain in sight, some farmers are turning to creative ways to encourage a big wet, with many looking to the art of dance.
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Started by ABC Eyre Peninsula presenter Emma Pedler, a virtual Facebook event has been making the rounds on social media, encouraging people to perform a rain dance in their paddocks or backyards.
"Waiting for it to rain sucks, so let's get out and do a rain dance - anything is worth a shot at this point," Ms Pedler said on the Facebook event.
A total of 188 people have already responded to this year's event, with ideas of how to dance and what songs to use already being discussed.
This isn't the first time Ms Pedler has organised a rain dance, with another virtual event held in April 2019.
The event had 309 people respond, with videos and photos shared by people across the Eyre Peninsula and beyond.
Rain quickly fell post the event, with respondents to this year's event hopeful a similar outcome can be repeated.
Other ideas to coax on a rain voiced in jest on social media include hanging clothes on the line, washing your car or planning a big outdoor event.
Earlier this week, we asked Wudinna Area School Reception students what they thought about the recent dry conditions and they shared their first-hand farming knowledge including some rain predications in the gallery below.
The Bureau of Meteorology is predicting a 90 per cent chance of exceeding 25 millimetres of rain in the next month for the South East, the southern tip of Yorke Peninsula and the southern Eyre Peninsula.
There is at least a 75pc chance of exceeding that tally in the central Eyre Peninsula, upper South East and Mid North, while further north on the upper Eyre Peninsula, Mallee and Riverland there is between a 25pc chance and a 50pc chance.
A seven-day forecast for the state shows mostly dry conditions for the week except in the lower South East, with the exception of a chance of showers on Wednesday in the central Eyre Peninsula.
Ms Pedler's virtual rain dance event will be held on Monday.
Katie Jackson
Journalist at Stock Journal. Born into a journo family in the state's South East, Katie made the move to the big smoke to join the team in early 2022 after seven years spent at various mastheads in the regions.
Journalist at Stock Journal. Born into a journo family in the state's South East, Katie made the move to the big smoke to join the team in early 2022 after seven years spent at various mastheads in the regions.
