Farm Weather South Australia

June 2022 update SA *Forecast prepared between June 16th-19th 2022 Review: G’Day everyone, time for that mid-month update on the proceedings for June, and certainly it has been a wet first half for the most part and we find ourselves on track to get average to above average rainfall with many more frontal systems to come to round out the month, even though we have entered a slight broadscale lull, it is far from the type of lulls we get when there is a much larger broadscale forcing of sinking air like we have had in previous years. Apologies if this is a shorter than usual update, I have injured my eye and not sure how! Bit of a battle to keep them open atm (can’t use the amber fluid as an excuse this time!) Since the initial June outlook, we have seen a number of systems move through with good rainfall, but especially the 4th-8th even with a series of cold fronts with constantly onshore moisture and upper-level colder air. The long-lived WNW angle allowed quite a lot ...

June 2022 outlook SA *Forecast prepared between June 2nd-4th Review: Wet, wet wet! That certainly was the order of the last few days across a wide array of districts. I trust you are all well and thrilled with that opening rain, the best in a long time and importantly, getting into areas that really needed it with some truly tremendous totals coming out of known dry areas in the Mallee/Murraylands, Riverland and also Lower and Upper North. I’ll post a few noteable totals a little further below. Firstly, though a recap of how we have gone since the last mid-month update, and it largely went as expected with the big high-pressure system setting us up with the strong easterlies meeting the significant upper troughing and NW cloudband activity from the NW which finished with a series of fronts and one very significant cut off low delivering excellent rain at the very end of the month. No doubt that cut off low was the main talking point on the 29-30th though before ...