Geelong wetter with warmer nights and cooler days TEMPERATURE Geelong was approximately 0.5 degrees C warmer than the latest 30-year average. Nights were 1.1 C warmer but the maximum daily temperatures were fractionally cooler. Minimums averaged 8.3 C [1.1 above] and maximums 16.9 C [ 0.2 below]. The warmest day reached 23.5 C on the 8th. RAINFALL Most of the region…
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August 2016
TEMPERATURE August resulted in slightly above average temperatures in Geelong. Compared with the latest 30-year means, Geelong was 0.7 C above the mean minimum of 6.0C and 0.6 C above the mean maximum 14.9 C. The warmest day (18th) recorded 22.6 C and the coldest day was the 6th with a maximum of 12.1 C. Overnight minimum temperatures ranged from…
July 2016
RAINFALL Well above average rainfall fell right across the Geelong region in July. The Geelong urban area had around 86 mm for the month which is almost double the latest 30-year average. Mt Sabine received a staggering 358.2 mm, while lowest in the region was Melbourne with only 64.2 mm and Leopold 67.0 although both were still above average. Some minor flash flooding…
June 2016
TEMPERATURE Almost spot-on average temperatures for June were recorded in Geelong. The latest 30-year means are 6.4 C and 14.5 C, and those for last month were 6.7 C and 14.3 C. So despite much public comment the temperatures were virtually neither warmer nor colder than normal. Typical of winter, June recorded many overcast days, a few fogs and a minority…
May 2016
TEMPERATURE Except for the last week a warmer May resulted in temperatures around 1.4 degrees C above the latest 30-year average. Daily maximums averaged 18.2 C (compared to 17.1) and minimums averaged 9.9 C (compared with 8.3). The warmest day saw a top of 26.4 C on the 7th and the coldest was the 26th with 12.5 C. Overnight minimums fell…
April 2016
TEMPERATURE April was very warm: around 2 degrees C warmer than the latest 30-year average which made the mean monthly temperature 17.1 degrees, 2.0 C higher than the 15.1 C mean. It was the second warmest April on record since 1903. 1968 was the warmest with a mean of 17.5 C. Geelong’s highest temperature was 31.7 C on the 5th and…
March 2016
TEMPERATURE March was Geelong’s warmest since 2013, with a mean temperature of 19.5 degrees C, and the 6th warmest on record. The current 30-year mean March temperature is 17.8 C. There were 6 days over 30 degrees (average 4.2 days) and the maximum reached 34.6 C on the 17th. Overnight minimums were much higher than average: 15.0 C compared to 12.3 C (the warmest since 1974). …
February 2016
TEMPERATURE Geelong was fractionally warmer than normal in February. Daily minimums averaged degrees 14.9 C (0.7 degrees above the latest 30-year normal) and maximums averaged 25.0 degrees (0.2 below). The hottest day was the 23rd when the maximum of 42.0 C was recorded and the warmest overnight minimum was 21.4 C on the 24th. Neither of these was a record. It…
January 2016
RAINFALL Highlight of the month was the incredible severe storm of the 27th, including 39.4 mm at Breakwater, with large hail and flash flooding from 24 mm in 20 minutes. Western suburbs had much heavier falls, including 91 mm at Montpellier, 81 mm at Manifold Heights, 79 mm at Highton and 65 mm at Herne Hill and Hamlyn Heights. There were…
December 2015
TEMPERATURE RAINFALL OTHER FEATURES RAINFALL DATA GEELONG REGION Location Total for Month (mm) Monthly Average (mm) Aireys Inlet 34.0 Anakie 55.0 Anglesea na 48.0 Apollo Bay 63.2 Bacchus Marsh na 47.1 Ballan 45.9 Ballarat 51.6 Bannockburn 42.0 Barwon Heads Golf Club 47.0 Bellbrae na 54.0 Beeac 42.4 Beech Forest 96.4 Benwerrin n.a. Birregurra 42.4 Boonah n.a. Cape Otway…
December 2015
RAINFALL Another very poor rainfall month has closed the year with an aggregate of around 70-75% of normal rainfall for the Geelong Region. In December Geelong’s urban area rainfall was 25 mm, just over half the 30-year average of 44 mm. A large area from the Great Dividing Range southwards to the Otways Coast averaged less than half the normal December figure.…
November 2015
RAINFALL Another below average rainfall month has occurred across the region. Except for a small area around Lismore the rest of the Geelong-Otways region was struck again by well below average rainfall for the fourth month in a row. Not since July has Geelong received its monthly average. The urban area averaged only 27 mm of the normal 53 mm. This has…
October 2015
Hottest and very dry October Geelong has just experienced its hottest October and one of the driest since temperature records began in 1903 and rainfall in 1871. The previously hottest October was in 1940 when the mean temperature was 15.9 degrees C, and this year it was 17.1 C. The latest 30-year average is 13.7 C. Other figures for 2015 are given in…