GEELONG REGION Location Total Rainfall for Month (mm) Monthly Average (mm) Aireys Inlet 34.0 Anakie 55.0 Anglesea 48.0 Apollo Bay 63.2 Bacchus Marsh 47.1 Ballan 45.9 Ballarat Aerodrome 51.6 Bannockburn 42.0 Barwon Heads 47.0 Bells Beach 54.0 Beeac 42.4 Beech Forest (Fly) 96.4 Benwerrin n.a. Boonah n.a. Cape Otway 52.7 Colac 46.6 Cressy 44.2 Dereel 44.2 Drysdale 44.7 Forrest (West…
Category: Observations
November 2022
GEELONG REGION Location Total for Month (mm) Monthly Average (mm) Aireys Inlet 98.8 59.7 Anakie 100.0 55.0 Anglesea 130.6 55.0 Ballan na 59.0 Ballarat Aerodrome 115.8 56.0 Barwon Heads na 53.0 Bellbrae 114.9 51.2 Beech Forest (Otway Fly) 257.4 n.a. Boonah na n.a. Cape Otway 124.6 64.1 Colac 117.0 57.7 Curlewis na n.a. Drysdale 102.8 41.9 Dereel 139.8 58.9 Forrest…
October 2022
The Himawari-8 satellite has captured images of a massive cloud band extending 5,000 kilometres from the Tropical Indian Ocean all the way to southeastern Australia. A watch and act advice has remained in place for the Barwon River overnight Saturday (15th) but the river is receding. It’s expected to remain above the moderate flood level into Sunday afternoon and reached…
September 2022
SUMMARY Image: Observed rainfall deciles during 12 past La Niña winter-spring periods combined, showing that large areas of Australia typically experience above-average rain during La Niña. The increased cloud cover and rainfall during La Niña also promotes cooler-than-average daytime temperatures across Australia, but warmer than average night-time temperatures. Heat extremes are generally less frequent during La Niña years, while prolonged…
August 2022
SUMMARY August was wetter than normal but much warmer than the long-term average. Details below. TEMPERATURE August was a warmer month than average by about 0.9 degrees C. Average maximum was 15.6 C above the latest 30-year average of 15.1 C and average minimum was 7.4 C above the average of 6.0 C. The warmest day was 20.1…
July 2022
SUMMARY Geelong had a cooler July than average and a wetter month on average. See details below. TEMPERATURE Geelong had 6 days below 2 degrees overnight, the 6th, 10th, 20th, 21st, 22nd and 30th and the lowest temperature was -0.4 C on the 21st and 30th. The average maximum was 13.6 C and the average minimum was 5.1 C. The 30-year’s averages…
June 2022
Winter started very cold in Victoria as shown on the internet on June 1st. SUMMARY Geelong’s weather for June this year was warmer than normal and average rainfall across the region. TEMPERATURE All of Australia’s southeastern and cities as Geelong just had their coldest start to winter in decades amid a two-week procession of cold fronts. A series of slow-moving…
May 2022
SUMMARY Geelong was cooler than normal and drier than the 30-year average. TEMPERATURE The warmest day reached 21.1 C on the 2nd and the coldest night fell to 1.2C on the 23rd. The coldest day was the 31st with a top of 9.5 C. Overall the month averaged 7.9 C minimum (30-year average 8.2) and the highest averaged 16.4 C…
April 2022
SUMMARY Much warmer April (1.2 degrees) than the average (16.1 degrees); also 30.0 mm more than average rainfall (42.5). TEMPERATURE Average daily minimums were 11.8 degrees C and maximums were 21.1 C. These figures were approximately 1.2 degrees warmer than the latest 30-year average. Geelong’s maximum was 29.7 C on the 17th and minimum was 6.4 C on both the…
March, 2022
SUMMARY Geelong was wetter than normal (45.0 mm compared to the mean of 27.5 mm) and warmer than normal (by around 1.0 degree C than the mean 18.0 degrees C). TEMPERATURE The average minimum was 14.2 C compared to the latest 30-year figure of 12.5 C and the average maximum 23.7 C compared to latest 30-year figure of 23.5 C.…
February, 2022
SUMMARY The whole month of February only received 3 or 4 mm of rainfall and the average temperatures were about 0.1 C below the 30-year normal. TEMPERATURE Geelong’s average daily maximum was 24.5 C (30-year average is 25.2 C) and the daily minimum figure was 14.8 C (average 14.4 C). This gives a monthly mean figure of 0.1 degree below…
January 2022
SUMMARY A much warmer January saw temperatures averaging around 2.0 C above the most recent 30-year (1992-2001) figures, and much more than normal rainfall for Geelong by around 36 mm. TEMPERATURE Maximum temperatures averaged 27.2 C and minimums averaged 16.5 C for the month. These figures were above the normals for the month (25.8 C and 13.9 C) but certainly not…
Summary Geelong Weather 2021
Summary of Geelong Weather, 2021 (Current figures are from the Bureau of Meteorology station at Breakwater “Geelong Racecourse AWS”, with all temperature and rainfall averages from several official Geelong BoM sites from 30-year averages 1990-2019). Month Weather Conditions Temps (deg C) Rainfall (mm) Cumulative Rainfall Comments JAN Cooler than average by 0.6°. 3 days >30° (max 37.1° on 11th). Coldest…