Farm Weather South Australia

April update 2024 SA *Forecast prepared between April 18th-21st 2024 Review: G’Day everyone, mid-April is here and time to have another look at how things are progressing weather wise – to be honest not a great deal to talk about so far but we will have a look through exactly how long this dry spell will last and what we can expect in the coming months ahead. Firstly, though a quick look back at how April is going, and one word sums it up – dry. The overlying pattern this month so far is seeing significant downwelling in the wake of the strong MJO phase that repeatedly sat across the top end of Australia with an open channel down the eastern part of the mainland. Now we see more widespread sinking affect 80% of the mainland as the bulk of the activity shifts offshore from the eastern states though some still remains. A quick tidbit on the WA thunderstorms that absolutely smashed the northern suburbs of Perth (primarily). We saw a sharp upper trough combine with remnant moisture form Ex...

April outlook 2024 SA *Forecast prepared between April 1st-5th 2024 Review: G’Day everyone, April is now here and certainly a time when most of you are looking to the heavens for that opening rainfall, something that has been devoid for much of the agricultural area in contrast to the wet inland and interior. Below I’ll post a few charts up to highlight the contrast of summer so far how a wet December and January turned to a very dry Feb and a mixed March (very wet inland very dry south). In short March was a very stable and dry month for the agricultural area with numerous hot days and low-end heatwaves – nothing like 2008 of course but we saw the overall average temperature come in quite a bit above average to make it one of our hotter March’s in recent times. Heavy tropical moisture pumped into the interior consistently, but the entire lot barely made a scratch into the agricultural areas. The exceptions were a couple of thunderstorms with locally intense falls across the Lower Nort...