Farm Weather South Australia

January update 2025 SA *Forecast prepared between Jan 20th-24th 2025 Review: G’Day one and all, I hope the summer period is treating you well with whatever you may be doing be it some well-earned rest, family time or on holiday. Myself, I am still recovering from the dreaded December lurgy 1 month on and whilst I feel better, the lungs certainly do not. Hopefully they do soon! January so far has been quiet weather wise apart from some patchy light rain on both the 5th and 14th with the 5th producing the best totals, but most were under 5mm or so north of the SE Districts where 7-10mm did fall. These totals increased over the border into VIC and did assist in helping put out the Grampians fire. There have been some hot to very hot days but for the most part a lot of temperatures in the 28-35C range as ridges in the Bight keep a SE flow over the state with deep troughing over QLD, NSW and at times VIC. This SE flow is stable, warm to hot and very dry with only brief humid bursts pushing ...

  January outlook 2025 SA    *Forecast prepared between Jan 1 st -5th 2024       Review:    G’Day one and all and a very Happy New Year to you, I hope 2025 brings far better fortune than 2024 did with regards to the weather and cropping in general as that was not a pleasant year to say the least. I trust and hope you have all had a great Christmas with family. Myself unfortunately not so, being extremely ill for nearly 3 weeks from mid-December till now and spending all of Christmas Day staring at the ceiling in bed with severe Bronchitis or Pneumonia – it certainly does knock the stuffing out of you and as a result I was unable to even get out of bed for a good week and do the mid-month update. But in any case, we will take a look back now at how the month went. December 2024 was for the most part a relatively dry month across the agricultural areas with general below average rainfall as per Figure 1 shows below: Figure 1: ...