(Temperature figures are from the Bureau of Meteorology station at Mount Duneed) Month Weather Conditions Temps (deg C) Rainfall (mm) Cumulative Rainfall Comments JAN 7 days over 30 deg, incl 4 > 35 deg. New record: 44.8 (Geelong’s hottest day) on 25th. Smoky atmosphere on several days. 1 Thunder day. Av max 25.4 Jan av max. is 25.2.…
Category: 2003
December 2003
RAINFALL Most of the Geelong region received below average falls this month. 50-60% of the normal was a common result. The urban area averaged 25mm, but there were wide variations on the 21st, when thunderstorm falls ranged from 13mm at Belmont to 30mm at Lara and 40mm at Clifton Springs. TEMPERATURE & OTHER FEATURES Temperatures were 0.5 degrees C above…
November 2003
RAINFALL November was a month of below average rainfall for the Geelong Region. More specifically, urban Geelong’s rainfall (25mm) was about half of the long-term average, the Otways catchment 40%, Golden Plains 40% and Bellarine Peninsula 50%. Only the Moorabool system received anything near average – eg, Ballan had 61mm; its average is 59mm. The completion of spring saw only…
October 2003
RAINFALL Rainfall was well above average across most of the region, ranging from 120mm at Torquay to 63mm at the You Yangs. Geelong’s rain fell on 22 days, and the often cloudy and overcast conditions were partly responsible for keeping temperatures down. A large proportion of the month’s rain fell on the first and the last days, when local gauges…
September 2003
RAINFALL AND WIND “September is usually windy, but this would have been one of Geelong’s windiest Septembers ever,” Lindsay Smail, Director of Geelong Weather Services said. There were 18 days on which wind gusts over 60kph struck in the Geelong region. The worst days were the 19th and the 24th. when wind gusts of well over 100kph caused severe storm…
August 2003
RAINFALL An excellent rainfall month was reported for August 2003 by Lindsay Smail, Director of Geelong Weather Services. Virtually the whole of the Geelong and Otway region received above-average rainfalls and the water catchments were at over 50% of capacity for the first time since February. TEMPERATURES August was also slightly colder than normal. Overall temperatures were down about 0.3…
July 2003
RAINFALL After a slow start, the month of July ended up as the best rainfall month in the Geelong region since October, 2001. An average of 80mm fell across the urban area, while the Bellarine Peninsula averaged over 100mm and the Otways catchment also received well above average falls. This was due to the fortuitous timing of a series of…
June 2003
RAINFALL Geelong, the Bellarine Peninsula and the Moorabool catchment fared quite badly in June rainfalls, according to Lindsay Smail, Director of Geelong Weather Services. Most of the city received only around 18mm, from 14mm at Lara to 22mm at Mt Duneed. The urban average for the month is about 50mm. Slightly better news was the fact that the Otways catchment…
May 2003
RAINFALL Geelong now has had below average rainfall for 15 months out of the last 18. Forrest in our Otways water catchment is not doing much better, with a tally of 13 months during the same period. The Moorabool catchment is is the same situation, and the result is that our catchments are now down to 43% of capacity. To…
April 2003
RAINFALL “Some good drenching rains over a 4-day period in the middle of the month helped create an above-average rainfall April for Geelong, the first such month since June last year” said Lindsay Smail of Geelong Weather Services. In the 16 months since January, 2002, Geelong has only had 511 mm, about 80% of its normal rainfall. The Otway catchments…
March 2003
RAINFALL A large area of the Geelong district received well below average rainfall for March – from only around 12 mm at Inverleigh and Lethbridge to little more than 20 mm across the Geelong Urban Area. Despite this gloomy pattern heavier falls than average were recorded at Queenscliff (56 mm) and the Otways ridge (Mt Sabine 174 mm) and the…
February 2003
RAINFALL “The seventh month in a row of below average rainfall for Geelong”, summed up February, according to Geelong Weather Services Director Lindsay Smail. With the urban area only averaging 20 mm for the month, Geelong’s rainfall since August last year has only been around 60% of normal. Despite a couple of good days recently, the region continues to suffer…
January 2003
TEMPERATURE Despite the record-breaking day on Saturday, 25th, where the mercury topped 44.8 degrees and eclipsed the previous 95-year record, January was fractionally cooler than the long-term average. Daily minimums averaged 12.5 degrees compared to 13.6 and maximums were almost identical: 25.3 over 25.2. Seven days reached 30 degrees compared with the January average of six. There was smoke in…