General News
20 January, 2023
Big year for rain
LODDON communities have recorded one of their wettest 12 months in 150 years. October rainfall set monthly records in Boort, Wedderburn, Korong Vale, Tarnagulla and Dunolly. Inglewood and Bridgewater both received a total of 785.9mm for the year but...
LODDON communities have recorded one of their wettest 12 months in 150 years.
October rainfall set monthly records in Boort, Wedderburn, Korong Vale, Tarnagulla and Dunolly.
Inglewood and Bridgewater both received a total of 785.9mm for the year but the totals fell shy of the 900mm-plus in 1973, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
However, Dunolly claimed a new annual record eclipsing 2010’s 869.8mm by 0.9mm.
Just kilometres away in Tarnagulla, 716.4mm was recorded in 2022 while Korong Vale measured 713.4mm and Wedderburn 716.4mm.
Official recordings at Prairie West, where statistics have been kept since 2011, show a total of 696.6mm for the year with new monthly tops in January, May and August and again in the final four months of the year.
Canary Island’s 567.1mm was the highest since 1975. Annual figures are not available for Boort and Pyramid Hill.
The BoM says atmospheric indicators are largely unchanged, remaining at La Niña levels that will typically increases the chance of above average summer falls.