Farm Weather South Australia

September update 2024 SA   *Forecast prepared between Sept 14th-16th 2024   Review:  G’Day everyone, now before I get into the weather side of things I just want to mention that I really hope you are doing ok, all things considering. I understand that things right now are extremely tough for many of you, and I just want to acknowledge that. I hope that each and every one of you reading this can see some relief ASAP as the current situation of this drought is no doubt crippling beyond the understanding of many outside of regional centres and those that are working on the land. Let’s hope we can go onwards and upwards from here extremely soon. Now looking back so far at September and it is safe to say that the dry conditions have gripped us completely with numerous failed systems struggling to connect at all to the tropics. Fast moving mid-level westerlies have ripped across the state whilst the low levels see significant lag which results in all potential sources of rainfall being out o...

  September outlook 2024 SA     *Forecast prepared between Sept 2 nd -4th 2024         Review:     G’Day everyone, spring has indeed sprung, and a very critical month is upon us, and it will determine for many exactly what can be salvaged from an extremely unreliable growing season rainfall wise to date. Time to get right into things and recap a very windy and frustrating August. The main feature of August was undoubtedly the wind caused by the three Sudden Stratospheric Warming events with the Longwave Trough also sitting right under us for the first time this year and staying there. The problem with all of this is the SSW events essentially ruined the potential of maximising rainfall whilst it was right in our window by invigorating the westerly belt so much that it was essentially screaming under us in a venomous west to east manner without the more usual meandering nature with fronts penetrating inland more in a SW-NE manner, we simply saw very ...