Parts of South Australia have experienced a reprieve from a long dry spell, with rain falling overnight and into Thursday. In Adelaide, the Little Para Reservoir in the north-east recorded 14 millimetres in 24 hours, while Belair in the foothills had 10mm. Adelaide local Carol Buys and her friend were meant to play golf on Thursday morning but decided to skip the game and watch the rain instead. The city itself has recorded several millimetres since this morning, and Ms Buys said it had been "fabulous" to watch the heavens open. "Bring it on, we'd like more," she said. Water Minister Susan Close said while today's rain "will not fill up people's storage tanks", it would raise the mood. "I don't want to pretend that one day's rain is going to make a difference in the context of the incredibly dry year, other than really to our spirits and also we'll see a bit of greenery that arises from this," she said. "We're going to need to see more sustained rain to feel that the threat of a prolonged drought has been headed off, but it certainly doesn't hurt to see the rain today and I think everyone is really pleased. "It's remarkable the lift in the spirits after a prolonged dry period that a dose of rain can give us." Welcome relief for Eyre Peninsula On the state's Eyre Peninsula, the patter of rain on roofs overnight was a welcome sound. Streaky Bay farmer Dion Trezona said he tipped 15 millimetres out of his rain gauge — an amount he had not seen since last October. "It was pretty wild and woolly here last night with the lightning and the wind and everything that came through with it, but 15mm is quite pleasant," he said. Mr Trezona said he estimated it to be the driest summer he had experienced since the beginning of 2013. "It's been that dry up here the Lincoln weeds are even dying, and that's pretty rare in our dirt for them to start dying due to the lack of moisture in the soil," he said. Mr Trezona said ideally he hoped for another 25 millimetres of rain in the next two weeks. The Bureau of Meteorology's Caitlin Minney said 101 days had passed since 10 millimetres of rainfall were recorded in Streaky Bay, and that the trend was similar across the Eyre Peninsula. Wudinna experienced 13 millimetres in the 24 hours to 9am on Thursday, and mayor Eleanor Scholz said the rain was a "very pleasant surprise". "[We] need a lot more to fill our collection points up, but that's a start," she said. Ms Scholz said the rain would help "top up" home owners' rainwater tanks and wash some of the dust away. "Everything settles after a good rain," she said. Streaky Bay and District Community Complex president Toni Foster oversees the group that looks after the local sporting fields. She said that, until the rainfall this morning, they had about two to three weeks' worth of water left in their tanks, despite the fact that they only water the grounds once per week. Ms Foster said hearing a "decent" amount of rain fall had "really given everyone a bit of relief". "Hopefully there's more to come, rain-wise," she said.