Farm Weather South Australia

July update 2024 SA   *Forecast prepared between July 16 th -18th 2024   Review:   G’Day everyone, the mid-month update is upon us already as we move seemingly quickly through this winter, already half over! It is good to see some green around now after such a poor start to the year and growing season and I trust and hope that most of you have received at least some form of break and are away with the season however I do expect some poor areas namely through the Lower and especially Upper North and also Mid-Mallee.   So far July has seen quite a mixed bag of weather as we pull between more extremes for the season. The most notable aspect has been the early month large and persistent high-pressure systems sitting down near Tasmania giving us fresh to strong and occasionally even damaging SE-NE winds, chiefly in the evening, gully winds that we usually associate with the warmer months. That aspect was very unusual for July. I have noted in the past sometimes before the polar vortex expan

  July outlook 2024 SA   *Forecast prepared between July 1 st -4th 2024   Review:   G’Day once again everyone, July is upon us and although time seems to be vanish these days, I’ll whip out a quick outlook on what to expect.   Firstly though, we’ll have a look back at June and how that panned out, the main talking point is we got a break in the season for most of you however, some would definitely feel like the rain is avoiding them, and these areas are primarily over the Upper North.   After a dry start, the fronts and NW cloudbands started to come in and increase in frequency. The break for most of the agricultural areas was made up of lots of small amounts of light to occasionally moderate rainfall rather than one big solid breaking event. We did however finish the month strongly with two great systems, the first with a lot of colder air and solid convective showery bands through the 24 th -26 th period and then the NW Cloudband to finish the month with a good