Legend!hillybilly wrote: ↑Tue Apr 23, 2019 9:30 pmDirect links at the URLs below. You can also use the interface at http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/Do you know where I can find Melbourne's annual rainfall data going back to when records began? I want a list of every annual total from back then to now, as it would be interesting to see if there are any patterns, but I just can't seem to find it on BOM's website (not user friendly at all)
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weat ... _num=86071
http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weat ... num=086338
Just started to rain here. Was expecting it to start tomorrow. Satellite shows mid level cloud thickening southwards.
Really off topic, but the Millennium Drought years are atrocious. Then bam, 2010 and 2011 strike. Both well above average. 1994 is just about where it starts declining, but which is followed by good years in 1995 and 1996, but then 1997 hits and we only record 360mm for the whole year.
Interesting to note that many of the bountiful years come in twos (La Nina years?). Also, we've only surpassed 900mm 3x since 1856. 2014 and 2015 are both pretty dismal. 2016 and 2017 were decent, both around the 600mm mark.
What's clear, though, is that this below average trend of the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s has no precedence. There are bad years going all the way back to 1856, but they're nowhere near as sustained. I.e. the periods of dry are followed by stretches of average or above average rainfall. 1906 to 1915 comes close, but the dry years aren't as dry, and they're also followed by a very sustained and wet period of above average rainfall.