Farm Weather South Australia

  SA Quick update Upper trough with showers and thunderstorms Feb 28th-Mar 1st 2022 G’Day all, thought I’d whip out a quick little update on things tomorrow, after a fairly quiet spell here we are finally getting a bit of instability (well today we already saw the start over the Lower SE) Meteorological Discussion In short, we will see an upper-level low move up from the SW overnight to be located over the Spencer Gulf by sunrise. This low will move slowly eastwards during the day to be located roughly over the southern Mallee by sunset. At the surface being cradled by a large high-pressure system, we will have a trough which will move west and deepen a little in response to the approaching upper low. With these two interacting with each other we will see a de-stabilisation of the atmosphere causing lapse rates to steepen thanks to the cooling aloft provided by the upper low. Initially some mid-level showers and isolated thunderstorms may fire up in some convergence ahead of the ma...

*Forecast prepared between Feb 16th-18th 2022 Review: G’Day one and all, that time of the month again for a little update on how things are going. A fairly uneventful first half of Feb after the last update at least (heavy rains across the Pastorals last day of Jan especially and also the 1st Feb but these were before the Feb outlook). A weak trough moved through on the 9th delivering patchy rain and isolated thunderstorms for most districts, though falls were quite light in the order of 1-5mm but nonetheless helped keep that tinge of green we see around the traps. After this ridging dominated with warm to hot days and nocturnal gully winds at times, a standard Feb pattern but true heat has been mitigated by the heavy inland rain over the heat engine of the country. There is a lot of water still flowing into Lake Eyre down the various rivers and creeks from both QLD, NT and locally in SA and these flows should keep coming well into autumn and thus giving the lake it’s best fill since 1...