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Werribee rainfall

February: 14.6 mm

YTD: 25.4 mm
Current weather at Truganina

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Olinda rainfall for May - 98mm.

Just short of average, but not bad, and with little or no evaporation now, things are very moist up here.

YTD 367.5mm
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40.1mm's for May here - Ave 59mm's so another Month Below average. Looks like a dry year unfolding
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Wet Finish to the month gave me an above average June with 89mm's (ave 73mm's)
Temperatures were also above average - Mean Max 14.7 (norm 13.9) Mean Min 8.6 (norm 7.0)
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Olinda Rainfall for June 2014 = 153mm, well above average again.
Olinda YTD = 515mm.
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January 37.5mm
February 20.5
March 68mm
April 93mm
May 52.5mm
June 96mm
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Olinda July Rainfall - 164mm.
Another great month here.
YTD = 679mm.
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Oops a bit late with this had 91.1mm's for the month of July above average for the second month in a row. :P
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Had 61.6mm's in August (ave 77mm's) YTD 464 mm's
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Poor month here, only 65mm.
744mm YTD.
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Olinda Rainfall for September 2014 = 88mm.
YTD = 832mm.
Another below average month here, but still some good rains at times.
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July Total 54.5mm [ave 97mm]
August Total 14mm [ave 95mm]
September Total 46mm [ave 77mm]
October Total 27mm [ave 82mm]
Yes we really need rain have been missing out badly last 4 months
as this is usually our wet time.
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October Olinda Total = 100mm.
YTD = 932mm.

Another below average month, but hey, 100mm in a month is good rain by any standards.
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Doesn't look like people are posting in here now,
Anyway had 41.1mm's here in Cranbourne in January 2015 that's just above the average of 40mm's.
Nearly all the rain I had fell in the 1st half of the month with only 2.2mm's after the 15th.
It was also the coolest January since 2004 here. Average max was 25.7c (norm 26.5c)
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Rainfall for February was below normal with just 32.6mm's here (my 14 year average is 56.5mm's)
Even though the highest temperature was just 35.5c average temperatures were still above normal.
Average Max was 27.0c (norm 26.1c) Average Min was 16.0c ( norm 14.9c)
SUMMER
Close to normal conditions for Summer with daytime temperatures slightly below normal
but nightime temperatures were above normal
Ave Max was 25.4c (norm 25.8c) Ave Min 14.9c (norm 14.1c)
It was the wettest summer for 3 years even though rainfall ended up a bit below normal
Summer rainfall - 146.4mm's (norm 166.3mm's) so we had 88% of our normal Summer average.
Thunder - 10 days of thunder this summer (norm 8)
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Received a below average 50.0mm's in September ( ave 72.2mm's)
So far October is shaping up as really warm and dry. Just had a few spits 0.1mm's in the gauge which officially counts as a trace.
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Received 50mm's exactly in September - average is 72mm's.
October is shaping up as a really dry month at this stage.
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Olinda
December 52mm.
2015 Grand Total = 1030mm.
That's two drier than average years in a row here.
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Haven't posted these here for a while since I left home, but my parents keep reading the Simpson South rainfall station for the BoM so here's the rainfall data for there for 2015. Simpson is located in the Southwest district north of Port Campbell by about 20 minutes. It's a dairy farming area, west of the Otways, but generally a wet region. 2015 marked the 2nd year in a row for below average rainfall, following a wetter than normal 2013.

Jan: 82.0 mm
Feb: 11.8 mm
Mar: 88.2 mm
Apr: 54.0 mm
May: 124.4 mm
Jun: 61.4 mm
Jul: 108.6 mm
Aug: 86.0 mm
Sep: 93.6 mm
Oct: 16.6 mm
Nov: 43.0 mm
Dec: 51.0 mm

Total: 820.6 mm
Mean: 979.6 mm
Median: 956.2 mm
8th driest year on record since 1968.
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10.9mm's of rain in February - ave is 53.5mm's
Summer 123mm's ave is 163mm's. :(
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