Farm Weather South Australia

  August 2023 update SA   *Forecast prepared between August 15 th -16th 2023   Review: G’Day everyone, I hope you are keeping well as we move into mid-August, and no doubt many of you are anxious about the months ahead, and certainly hope we can at least get a little bit of rain whilst we have a good window here through mid-August, the expected time for systems this month. I will explain more in the next section.   The first half of the month has for the most part been quite dry with only weak systems bringing light falls over the space of 2 weeks. The best effort was a weak cut off low with some rain areas on the 12 th and a more concentrated rainband along the jetstream axis across southern and some eastern agricultural districts, however a lot of this was still quite a ways south with a narrow area from Southern Adelaide through to Lameroo receiving 5-15mm totals generally. North of this, the falls tapered off with only scattered light totals. Many districts are no

August 2023 outlook SA *Forecast prepared between July 31st-August 3rd 2023 Review: G’Day everyone, hope you are keeping well. August is now upon us and a critical month for so many with it often being a barometer with respect to how things go for many districts. A decent month here will no doubt help many and certainly whilst I can’t see anywhere near the levels of June, it will be a little better than July which has been the expectation for a number of months now. Taking a look back at July now and it certainly was in contrast to June which was quite wet overall. High pressure systems began to show their muscle, bringing frosts, and longer dry spells with inconsistent and unreliable rainfall occurring allowing some drying out after the good falls in June. The areas which no doubt felt the pinch the most were those with increasing northern extent, especially north of Goyder's Line. Notable events through July rainfall wise were hard to come by with the best system coming on the 6t