( Figures are from the Bureau of Meteorology station at Mount Duneed ) Weather Conditions Temps (deg C) Rainfall (mm) Cumulative Rainfall Comments J A N 5 days over 30 degrees. Top temperature was 36 degrees on 14th. First half of month averaged 25.4, second half averaged 21.9. Av. max. was 24.0. January average max. is 25.7. Mt Duneed 24.2.…
Category: 2000
December 2000
RAINFALL “Well below average” is how Lindsay Smail, Director of Geelong Weather Services describes rainfall totals for December, 2000. “It’s not a very auspicious way to end the year, the century or the millennium,” he said. “Most places in the region only received about half their normal falls. “Despite the poor end to the year and the projected dry summer…
November 2000
RAINFALL For spring there was good news and bad news, according to Lindsay Smail, Director of Geelong Weather Services. The bad news was the below average November totals recorded right across most of the region, while this was tempered by the good news of very heavy falls over the whole of spring. After solid downpours in September and October, total…
October 2000
RAINFALL The past month has been the wettest October in Geelong since 1975, according to Lindsay Smail, Geelong Weather Services director. With some suburbs receiving over 160 mm, the record October total of 177 mm set in 1949 was seriously threatened for a while. The urban area received an average of 142 mm bringing the total for the last seven…
September 2000
RAINFALL AND WIND “A very pleasing start to spring,” was how Lindsay Smail of Geelong Weather Services described September rainfalls right across the region. Most parts of the Geelong-Otways region recorded rainfall in excess of 120% of normal September totals. “This sets our earlier prediction of above average spring falls on a very firm footing,” he said. Rain fell on…
August 2000
RAINFALL For the fourth year in a row the Geelong region’s winter rainfall has been below average, according to Lindsay Smail of Geelong Weather Services. West and south of Geelong the drought-afflicted Otways and Golden Plains suffered once again, receiving only between 50% and 70% of a normal winter’s rainfall. The Surf Coast and Bellarine Peninsula, from Anglesea to St…
July 2000
RAINFALL Good rains in the Anglesea to Modewarre districts and the Bellarine Peninsula were recorded in July, according to Lindsay Smail, manager of Geelong Weather Services. Bellbrae, with 108.5 mm surpassed even Forrest at the West Barwon Dam which received a disappointing below average 104.8 mm. In general, urban Geelong was above average (around 56 mm) but Golden Plains areas…
June 2000
RAINFALL “A disappointing month for rainfall” is how Lindsay Smail, manager of Geelong Weather Services, described June’s falls. Much of the region only received around 70-90% of the normal June totals. The Bellarine Peninsula fared best, with St Leonards well above average, but a large area from Colac through Inverleigh, Teesdale and Lethbridge were well down. In spite of a…
May 2000
RAINFALL The heavy rains across the region since last weekend have brought May’s rainfall totals generally well above average, said Lindsay Smail, manager of Geelong Weather Services. From a mammoth 269 mm at Weeaproinah down to a more modest 46 mm at Avalon, all districts were above average, he said. Snow fell at several places near Lavers Hill on the…
April 2000
RAINFALL April was above average for rain in the Geelong urban area. Totals across the city were remarkably even, mostly within a few millimetres of 45. The Geelong average for April is 42 mm. On the Bellarine Peninsula, Queenscliff received 50.8 mm and Drysdale 52.5, but Connewarre only registered 29.7. Forrest, site of the West Barwon Dam, recorded 81.8 mm,…
March 2000
RAINFALL The Bureau of Meteorology’s station at Mt Duneed has just recorded Geelong’s lowest March rainfall since 1889. Speaking yesterday, Lindsay Smail of Geelong Weather Services said Mt Duneed’s total of 1.6 mm was Geelong’s lowest March rainfall in 111 years, when 0.3 mm was registered. Most of the urban area received around 6 mm. In more recent times low…
February 2000
RAINFALL It was a very disappointing month for rainfall region-wide, and only the heavy downpours associated with thunderstorms on the 25th prevented most areas being much below average. Areas such as Wallington (11 mm), Connewarre (11.5 mm), Belmont (12.5 mm), Highton (13 mm), Winchelsea (14 mm), Inverleigh(14 mm) and Barwon Heads (14.5 mm) contrasted with Werribee (60 mm), Portarlington(52 mm), Corio…
January 2000
RAINFALL Once again below average rainfall fell in the Geelong region, according to GWS Manager Lindsay Smail, but there were wide variations, from 17 mm at Shelford to 48 mm at Teesdale only 6 kilometres away. The major reason for the differences was the nature of the thunderstorms experienced on the 26th. On that day Shelford received only 9 mm…