The September 2012 rainfall total at Adelaide (Kent Town) was 21.8mm received on 12 rain days. This is very much below the long term average of 60.3 mm on 13 or more rain days, and results in the driest September in Adelaide since 2008 when only 16.0 mm was observed.
Chromatin condenses to form chromosomes during  prophase of mitosis, and during prophase I and prophase II of meiosis. Chromatin is a dense, complex fibrous structure composed of associated proteins and molecules of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, which contains the genetic material of an organism.
the usual method of cell division, characterized typically by the resolving of the chromatin of the nucleus into a threadlike form, which condenses into chromosomes, each of which separates longitudinally into two parts, one part of each chromosome being retained in each of two new cells resulting from the original cell.