Wet Finish to the month gave me an above average June with 89mm's (ave 73mm's)
Temperatures were also above average - Mean Max 14.7 (norm 13.9) Mean Min 8.6 (norm 7.0)
July Total 54.5mm [ave 97mm]
August Total 14mm [ave 95mm]
September Total 46mm [ave 77mm]
October Total 27mm [ave 82mm]
Yes we really need rain have been missing out badly last 4 months
as this is usually our wet time.
Doesn't look like people are posting in here now,
Anyway had 41.1mm's here in Cranbourne in January 2015 that's just above the average of 40mm's.
Nearly all the rain I had fell in the 1st half of the month with only 2.2mm's after the 15th.
It was also the coolest January since 2004 here. Average max was 25.7c (norm 26.5c)
Rainfall for February was below normal with just 32.6mm's here (my 14 year average is 56.5mm's)
Even though the highest temperature was just 35.5c average temperatures were still above normal.
Average Max was 27.0c (norm 26.1c) Average Min was 16.0c ( norm 14.9c)
SUMMER
Close to normal conditions for Summer with daytime temperatures slightly below normal
but nightime temperatures were above normal
Ave Max was 25.4c (norm 25.8c) Ave Min 14.9c (norm 14.1c)
It was the wettest summer for 3 years even though rainfall ended up a bit below normal
Summer rainfall - 146.4mm's (norm 166.3mm's) so we had 88% of our normal Summer average.
Thunder - 10 days of thunder this summer (norm 8)
Received a below average 50.0mm's in September ( ave 72.2mm's)
So far October is shaping up as really warm and dry. Just had a few spits 0.1mm's in the gauge which officially counts as a trace.
Haven't posted these here for a while since I left home, but my parents keep reading the Simpson South rainfall station for the BoM so here's the rainfall data for there for 2015. Simpson is located in the Southwest district north of Port Campbell by about 20 minutes. It's a dairy farming area, west of the Otways, but generally a wet region. 2015 marked the 2nd year in a row for below average rainfall, following a wetter than normal 2013.
Jan: 82.0 mm
Feb: 11.8 mm
Mar: 88.2 mm
Apr: 54.0 mm
May: 124.4 mm
Jun: 61.4 mm
Jul: 108.6 mm
Aug: 86.0 mm
Sep: 93.6 mm
Oct: 16.6 mm
Nov: 43.0 mm
Dec: 51.0 mm
Total: 820.6 mm
Mean: 979.6 mm
Median: 956.2 mm
8th driest year on record since 1968.
Jake - Senior AWF Forecaster
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