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…
Category: Observations
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…
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…
Summary of 2002 Weather
( Figures are from the Bureau of Meteorology station at Mount Duneed ) Weather Conditions Temps (deg C) Rainfall (mm) Cumulative Rainfall Comments J A N Jan 1st was the coldest since 1970. 4 days over 30 degrees, incl 37.4 max on 26th. Coolest max was 17.9 on 21st. Average max 23.1 Jan average max. is 25.2. Average min 11.7.…
December 2002
RAINFALL Another disappointing rainfall month was only partly alleviated by late rains on the 31st which fell too late to be included in the December totals, which averaged around 25 mm for the urban area and only 70% of normal across the region. Despite this, with water storages at 65% of capacity, there is no outlook for water restrictions this…