These are Hamilton New Zealand from 1905 ten year averages in mm.
1211, 1254, 1109, 1160,
Annuals
1993 894, 1994 1149, 1995 1377, 1996 1449, then I stopped.
In 100 years it hasnšt changed.
Search for - rainfall Ruakura and Išm sure therešll be Australian figures on
the net.
On 27/1/06 19:08, "Jennifer Baillie" <jezzza100@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone, Our family has been recording rainfall in Tyers from 1951 onwards
> without missing a year, with our average being roughly 33 inches. From 1951 to
> mid 1976 my Grandfather wrote in a book the rainfall figures and other
> comments like Floods, frosts, dryspells and muddy spells, fires, caterpillar
> plagues and when man landed on the moon.
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> Our wettest year here recorded was 46 1/2 inches in 1952 with the comment MUD
> & WET, with mud being underlined. In 1964 the Latrobe River Flooded our farm
> flats 5 times in 4 months. In the last 10 years from 1996 to 2005 there has
> only been 2 or 3 floods, they were minor with one being in the miidle of
> february last year. The last year I remember it flooding, Tyers was cut off
> from Glengarry by Rintouls Creek, Traralgon by the Latrobe River and Yallourn
> north/Morwell by the Tyers River. The only way in or out was to go around
> through Erica/Rawson and down the Moe-Erica Road.
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> The last 10 years rainfall including the 1995 flood year was: (in inches)
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> 1995 = 40 3/4, 1996 = 30 3/4, 1997 = 22 1/4, 1998 = 31 1/2, 1999 = 23 1/2,
> 2000 = 31, 2001 = 35 1/4, 2002 = 28, 2003 = 28 1/2, 2004 = 32, 2005 = 27 1/2
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> In all these years we have not had a significant Autumn break like in
> previouse years.
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> It would be interesting to know if anyone else has recorded rainfall for this
> long in one area and what the last 10 years have been like?
>
> Regards
>
> Jennifer Baillie
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> Tyers.
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>> From: David & Barbara Clayton <barbclay@dcsi.net.au>
>> Reply-To: vicdairy-l@unimelb.edu.au
>> To: vicdairy-l@unimelb.edu.au
>> Subject: Dairying
>> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:14:01 +1100
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I have been amazed at some of the newspaper articles that have been written
>> about the lack of increased milk production lately.
>> Reading said articles one would think that green grass was up to the tops of
>> the fences across the whole of the State. Just because one part of the State
>> is having a booming season it doesn't mean that the rest is in the same boat.
>> On our farm we a struggling to survive our nineth year in a row with below
>> average rainfall.
>> In 2005 we recorded 757mm which is the lowest in the 19 years we have been
>> here. The 19 year average is 1056mm, the first 9 years average was 1145mm and
>> the last 10 years av. 975.
>> There is absolutely no way that we could increase production with these
>> weather conditions. Our farm is mostly red soil and for the last 4 years we
>> have had to buy in all feed from Christmas through to May. This last spring
>> is
>> the first time in 4 generations that no silage or hay was made.
>> If there is no good autumn break this year we will be joining all our
>> neighbours and nearly all others within a 5km radius and throw the towell in.
>> I don't think that Dairy Australia realises that when then next down turn in
>> prices comes that we will probably see the biggest exit from the industry
>> ever. There are a number of farmers in the 55+ age bracket who are only still
>> milking because we like the job. There again I might just sell out and move
>> to
>> another, hopefully wetter area.
>>
>> What are other areas of Gippy like re rainfall?
>>
>> Regards,
>> David Clayton
>> Warragul
>>
Best wishes,
Vaughan Jones
Hamilton
New Zealand
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