Farm Weather South Australia

October update 2023 SA *Forecast prepared between October 17th-21st 2023 Review: G’Day everyone, I trust you are keeping well and no doubt getting quite busy as we move towards harvest time. October so far has really thrown all sorts of temperature fluctuations at us with multiple changes however the main take home is that it has been very dry, and this is certainly not surprising. To date the state remains quite dry with the only half significant rainfall occurring on the leading edge/early stages of the deep low that developed off the SE coast of VIC where areas of the Southern NE Pastoral and Upper North received some useful falls with 17.4mm recorded at Yunta on the 4th. The other significant event was more the severe wind gusts from the expected high based thunderstorms during the evening of the 2nd. Noarlunga in the southern suburbs of Adelaide recorded 106km/hr with numerous trees down around the area cutting power to homes for days. This is a typical scenario in dry springs whe...

October outlook 2023 SA *Forecast prepared between September 30th-October 2nd, 2023 Review: G’Day everyone, I trust you are well! October is here and things are certainly warming up rapidly as the sun makes a move south once again. There is much to discuss in the next section but first we will recap September and see how the outlook performed and touch on the notable events. The main rainfall event of the month was a strong cold front and associated rainband before a dumbelling cut off low with cold air aloft barrelling up from the SW which did bring a dusting of snow to Mt Bryan, Hallett and some very high portions of the Greater Mid North. The rainband on the cold front from late 6th and through part of the 7th delivered useful totals and without it, the month would have been a horror story. Falls ranged generally in the order of 10-20mm although some pockets of 20-25mm were recorded through the Mt.Lofty Ranges. Sadly, the rain shadow was strong and falls diminished east of the range...