Clicked over 3mm more through the night so on 27mm. Nearly half way to our February average which is a nice place to be on February 2. Season to date is around 240mm so only need about 10mm to reach average give or take which is quite a recovery after the awful December
I’d have to check, but suspect the last three weeks which have delivered about 200mm in the Nongs is probably the wettest mid summer period since the 2010-2012 La Niña sequence and would rival the 2005 period. Very thankful to come out of the strongest IOD is years, to basically a non fire season locally
(pure dumb luck, as I realise so many people have had an awful time of it).
More showers to come in the south so could add another 5mm or so, give or take.
Tis funny that I’ve often found these incredibly moist systems are patchy. I guess when you have a tropical incursion the baroclinicity is pushed south, and you tend to rely on more subtle features for rain such as solar heating for convection. For most of Vic the timing wasn’t quite right with the trough peaking near the SA border, and central areas then reliant on diurnal activity on Saturday which struggle a bit because of the lack of clear air and the southerly which pushed through a bit early. No complaints on the total in FC, but a tweak could have seen us crack a ton
In SA it was locally perhaps a once in ten year event, so where it peaked was certainly a cracker.