Farm Weather South Australia

February update 2024 SA *Forecast prepared between Feb 19-22nd, 2024 Review: G’Day everyone, a little late with the February update sorry, had driver duties to Melbourne for the wife to see Miss Swift. Talk about bedlam!! Reminds me why I like living in little Ol Adelaide. But enough of that, a quick look back at how the month is going so far reveals that there have been no surprises whatsoever. An expected below average month rainfall wise has so far seen a grand total of 0.0mm over essentially the entire agricultural area with the exception of the NE Riverland. Please see Figure 1 below: Figure 1: February month to date rainfall showing the dry spelk over agricultural areas – source BoM http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/ The far NE of the state has been quite wet thanks to the influence of tropical moisture, chiefly from Ex TC Kirrily when it moved through the region. Together with this, heavy rainfall and major flooding over the border in Channel Country and general NW QLD, has seen flo...

February outlook 2024 SA *Forecast prepared between Jan 31st-Feb 3rd, 2024 Review: G’Day one and all, February is now here and time to have a look at what is in store for us in the final month of summer, traditionally a hot and dry one for SA, however this year the heat will primarily remain inland with less dips south than the average Feb. Firstly, as usual, we will have a look back at January and we can certainly say it kicked off 2024 with quite a bang in many districts with both good rain, thunderstorms and decent humidity, not just in SA but across the greater east whilst the Top End and Northern parts of QLD (and to a lesser extent the top of the Kimberly) saw a solid onset of the monsoon. The main event in the second half of the month for SA was a narrow but well received rainband with heavy convective areas embedded in a training line which largely focused through the Central portions of the Adelaide Metro area with remnant moisture feeding down from the slow moving Monsoonal L...