Over the past 48 hours, Sydney copped 28mm of rain making it the city's wettest weekend so far this summer. A summer that unfortunately is already doomed with only 12 days left. The heaviest falls were observed overnight across the North Shore and the Northern Beaches with widespread rainfall reaching 20-30mm. Hornsby registered the wettest 24 hour period throughout the basin with 41mm, accumulating a total of 52mm throughout the weekend. The 22mm at Observatory Hill to 9am this morning adds to the 6mm the previous day, taking the weekend total to 28mm, the wettest weekend since late November. Although many of us have been complaining how wet it has been and have been praying to the weather gods to bring back summer, we have to put this rainfall in perspective (summer/Autumn is Sydney's wettest period). So far Sydneysiders have had one of the greatest summers on record (unless your livelihood depends on rain!). This summer is comparable to the summer of 2004-2005 which had above average sunshine and more rain, but spread throughout less rainy days. So far, this summer to date has seen 87mm of rainfall which is only 30% of the seasonal average of 297mm. The 2013-2014 summer has been dry, in fact the driest since 1952 and the 10th driest to date since records began 155 years ago. Over the next two weeks, these figures could change slightly as showers are on the cards again tomorrow with another low pressure system bringing some more rainfall on Wednesday. One thing is certain, however, the season has now turned.