RAINFALL “Geelong’s rainfall for October was in the lowest 20% of all recorded falls since 1871,” said Lindsay Smail, Director of Geelong Weather Services yesterday, when commenting on the poor monthly regional rainfalls. Geelong’s 27 mm was only half of that normally expected in October, and the city had only had 60% of the rain it normally gets up until…
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December 2004
RAINFALL Owing to several thunderstorms most of urban Geelong received some good falls from the 9th to the 11th, although the BoM gauge at Mt Duneed was a little too far south to benefit greatly. Most of the storms propagated from the north and northwest and did not reach coasstal areas. Certainly the Otways missed out on most of the…
January 2007
RAINFALL In the last month rainfall has been below the January average for most of the immediate Geelong region. Geelong received around 85% of normal January totals, and the Moorabool catchment area was similar. Geelong suburbs received around 35 mm (average 41mm). Further afield, to the south and west, the situation was different. The Otways catchment received generally well above…
October 2008
RAINFALL October was Geelong’s third driest month of a very dry year to date, adding just 11 mm to the progressive total. In what ought to be our wettest month, most areas within the district only registered around 20-30% of normal rainfall. Urban Geelong’s rain for the year now totals just 251 mm, which is less than half of the…
January 2011
RAINFALL High rainfall dominated the Geelong-Otways-Bellarine region in January. Most areas received at least double the normal January rainfall, and some areasgot up to four times as much. Urban Geelong averaged 130 mm for the month compared to the average 33 mm. The rainfalls that caused flooding over much ofnorthern Victoria in the second week of the month brought moderate…
November 2012
RAINFALL November was looking like Geelong’s driest month for the year, until the final four days which produced over 27 mm. We had an average across the urban area of34 mm, compared with the long-term average of 52 mm. There were only 7 rain days, compared to the average 10. Despite three thunder-days which accompanied thelate rain, there were no…
October 1998
RAINFALL Totals generally above average were recorded across the region. In the closest areas to Geelong falls ranged from 95 mm at Queenscliff down to 41 at Lara. Across the urban area the average was around 65 mm, with the highest being 71 mm at Grovedale. At Forrest the West Barwon Dam is receiving good runoff after 178.4 mm of…
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 areareceived an average of 142 mm bringing the total for the last seven months…
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…
January 2005
RAINFALL An exciting end to the month of January occurred on the 26th with Geelong
February 2007
RAINFALL Despite the official recent death notices for El Nino, its effect lives on around Geelong. In February we only received between 12 and 26mm despite the long term average being 36mm. The Otways catchment fared well with 88mm at West Barwon (average 44) after a similarly wet January, however the catchments still only contain 18.5% of capacity. Rain fell…
January 2009
RAINFALL Despite some popular opinion this has not quite been Geelong’s driest January. The Weather Station at Mt Duneed has only been operating since 1983 and it has certainly been the driest one since then. Only 0.4 mm was recorded this time, but in 1878 the North Geelong station received no January rain at all.So it is true to say…
February 2011
RAINFALL The Geelong Region, in common with much of eastern Australia, has just recorded the wettest spring-summer 6 months period since records began in 1871.Averaged across the urban area, rainfall totalled 521 mm, some 66 mm higher than the previous best (455 mm) in 1992-93.It was Geelong’s second wettest summer since records began: 260 mm was recorded, compared to 267…