Farm Weather South Australia

  January update 2024 SA *Forecast prepared between Jan 14th-15th 2024 Review: G’Day everyone, time for a mid-month update as the summer rolls on. We’ve certainly seen a change in conditions across the Top End of Australia however down south the changes have been a little less obvious with a lack of true heat filtering down as well as troughs and general intermittent instability at times. The main example of this was from the system we had through the 6th and 7th with showers, thunderstorms and rain areas. The system as a whole though was a bit weak with focus and a general detachment between the surface trough to the east and the upper trough to the west. Nevertheless, some strong thunderstorms did form, with Quorn copping one of the better ones on the 5th iirc ahead of an MCS (Mesoscale Convective System) that moved across Pastoral areas and the Flinders late on the 6th. On the 7th, the humid airmass was present with poor timing for maximised thunderstorms over Central areas but far

January outlook 2024 SA *Forecast prepared between Jan 3rd-4th 2024 Review: G’Day everyone, Happy New Year and hope that 2024 brings good health and prosperity to you all. Looking back at December and it certainly finished 2023 with a bang with a wet and thundery month across many districts with multiple days of thunderstorms, with many severe thunderstorms. After the mid-month update the heavy rain did ease off however, the back side of the deep cut off low over the Eastern states resulted in a truly miserable Christmas Day (coldest on record for many locations) with fresh to strong southerly winds, light drizzly showers and mostly cloudy conditions. I know I certainly needed a jumper on outside most of the day. This system gave enormous rainfalls across multiple states with VIC, NSW, QLD copping the most significant weather. No doubt the standout talk was the destructive thunderstorm which mowed down a path through the Border Ranges area of SE QLD with a long path of snapped trees, f