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Hi ,happy New Year to everyone.
We had a wet first half of the year 546.4mm's to the end of June, but it was a dry second half with 313.4mm's.
That made a total of 859.8mm's (ave 801mm's)
Rain fell on 170 days but there was no rain in the last 11 days of the year.
We had 18 thunder days (ave 19) this year.
See link below for full details

http://raingauge.org.au/206/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Happy New Year to all.

A paltry 23mm for December 2012, compared to the Viewbank 1999-2011 average of 73.1mm.

Total for the year is 663mm compared to the 1999-2012 average total of 690.5mm

As a comparison, the stats show the driest December was 20.8mm in 2002 so a dry end to the year indeed.

December-43.9mm Atleast it finished with a storm! And so did 2012! Happy New year everyone...



Rainfall Townsville 2012-1275.2mm

Jan-195.9(276.5) Feb-188.1(307.9) Mar-567.5(186.3) Apr-20.9(66.6) May-67.6(32.4) Jun-35.3(20.5) Jul-143.2(13.6) Aug-1.5(16.1) Sep-0.5(10.8) Oct-1.3(24.8)Nov-9.5(59.6) Dec-43.9(132.4)
YTD-1275.2(1146.3)

At the end of 2012 we had 802mm here at Brown Hill. I'd say about average. (2011 969mm [diff 167mm]). Interesting stat that I keep, number of thundery days for 2012: 12.

Oh my I've been slack at posting here.

October : 59.1mm
November: 34.8mm
December: 59.0mm

Thanks to you all for your 2012 figures, a pretty good year for most I think, albeit drying out as the year progressed, but then for a lot of us it needed to.

Werribee rainfall

Jan: 2.0 mm. This is just 5.4% of the long-term average and the lowest monthly total I've recorded.

Been recording rainfall aroound Melbourne ( Ferntree Gully , Kilsyth, Croydon, Cranbourne) Since 1982 and the 3.0mm's we had this month was the lowest I have ever recorded (prev Record 3.3mm's FTG in 1991) Previous Cranbourne record was 3.6mm's in 2009.
In fact this (3.0mm's) is all I have recorded in the last 42 days.
Hopefully that may change in a few hours from now.

7.5 mm for January - on the bright side, the daily totals were so few and so small I could add them in my head .

Vict Pt Jan rainfall 163.4mm ( av 177 ). Surprisingly we missed out on the flood rains that engulfed all around us, but we copped the wind;.

Daylesford CFA ,Bridport St-Weather Station.
Jan 2013 5.2 mm [Up until yesterdays shower was sitting on .8mm for the month]

Question without notice after reading Robbo's comment about yesterday's showers at Daylesford. Does everybody record their rainfall according to the standard meteorological day in Australia, ie, 9.00am to 9.00am?

That being the case, the monthly rainfall is the total rainfall from 9.00am on the last day of the previous month to 9.00am on the last day of the current month.

It makes it extremely difficult to compare towns if the reporting periods are not uniform.

Yes we try to ensure people use the official 9am cut-off for their readings, so 9am on January 31st was that month's total.

Seymour

December 2012: 11.6mm
Year 2012: 623.4mm

January 2013: 0mm
YTD: 0mm

Terrible January here, I'm just forgetting about it and looking forward to February being much higher (already on 0.2mm, so there's an improvement)

Thanks again, Geoff

7mm for January here. So far in February 22mm though so YTD is at 29mm

Jan 34mm

3.5mm for January. Started raining around 5.30pm on 31st Jan so that will go towards the Feb total.

Jan 2000-2012 Average at Viewbank AWS is 43.8mm. Driest was 0.8 mm in 2009 so still "wetter" this year

NOV.Total 79mm rain
Dec.Total 38mm rain
Jan. 2013 28mm rain [ave-66mm]
2012 Year Total 966 mm above ave [834mm]
June and NOV. Only two months to make average since March.

In Grindelwald 15km north of Launceston in Tasmania we had 14.4 mm for January, well below the average.

Townsville January 2013- 301.6mm