Farm Weather South Australia

  August update 2024 SA   *Forecast prepared between Aug 17 th -19th 2024     Review:    G’Day one and all, the mid-month is here, and it is most certainly time for an update on proceedings and even though it has been a short while since the last update, a lot has happened with the most recent system and the expectations of what is to come as we move into this uptick in mobile cold fronts. A recap on the 15 th to 16 th event and firstly apologies for not getting a quick update out for that event, for the initial August outlook it showed a thundery signature and that certainly played out and upgraded as we got closer to the event. Rainfall wise, it turned out almost exactly as expected with some good and welcome falls across the Lower to Upper North and northern Yorke Peninsula especially however I did think the Mallee to Upper SE as well as Lower Yorke Peninsula came in with unders for the event. Essentially what we saw was an initial pre-frontal trough the night before w

  August outlook 2024 SA   *Forecast prepared between Aug 6 th -8th 2024   Review:   G’Day everyone, apologies for a late August outlook, I had fishing trip booked in, first holiday in over 2 years and nowhere near long enough! It did give me the chance to travel through some of the growing regions of the western Mid North and across Eyre Peninsula and I have to say, in all the years I’ve travelled that way (most years since 2009),this would have to show the greatest variety in crop health and quality that I have seen with ranges from deep green and very even to barely anything germinating at all apart from some green dots. Largely dependent on soil type. Broadly though, even on the very healthy ones, the heights were low for what one would expect for late July to early August.   Now firstly we will take a look back at July to see how it performed – it certainly was a mixed bag of weather with significant frost, strong and unseasonable SE-NE winds before the fronts cam