Multiple locations clock up record low rainfall to start winter

Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) climatologist, Emily McVeigh, Sydney, said the previous month featured a dominant high pressure system that sat to the north of Australia and blocked the usual cold fronts, that would bring winter rain, from crossing the state.

Instead, these fronts slipped further south, dumping their moisture as rain across Victoria, Tasmania, the west and south-west of Western Australia and South Australia.

Among those locations in NSW which recorded a record dry June are:

Deniliquin at a grand total of 1.8 millimetres. Its previous record low was 2.3mm set in 1876.

Urana Post Office at 1.6mm (previous record, 3.2mm in 1984); Tumbarumba Post Office at 5.2mm (previous record, 10.6mm in 1984); Grenfell, 2.2mm (previous, 2.8mm in 1944); Corowa airport 3.7 (previous, 6.6mm in 1975); Tocumwal airport 1.8mm (previous, 3mm in 1984); Culcairn Bowling Club 5.6mm (previous, 6.4mm in 1972); Hume Resovoir 7.2mm (previous, 11mm in 1972); Bowning 3.2mm (previous, 8.1mm in 1954); Berridale 1mm (previous, 5.1mm in 1971); Garryowen 6.2mm (previous, 7.4mm in 1984); Canberra (at the National Botanic Gardens) 0.4mm (previous, 5.4mm in 1971); Belfrayden near Collingullie equalled its 1984 low of 1.4mm; Narrandera airport 1mm (previous, 2.2mm in 1984); Holbrook 5mm (previous, 7.6mm in 1984); Ganmain 2.4mm (previous, 3.4mm in 1984); Jerrabattgulla near Braidwood 4.2mm (previous, 6.4mm in 2001).

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Thredbo village 12.9mm (previous, 26mm in 1993); Mandurama Post Office equalled its precvious record low of 2.6mm in 1972; Parkes airport 0.4mm (previous, 3.1mm in 1944); Alectown 0.8mm (previous, 8.8mm in 2011); Mandagery 3.2mm (previous, 19.6 in 1997); Albury airport 7.6mm (previous, 21.4mm in 2008); Bathurst airport 3.6mm (previous, 11.6mm in 1994); Bigga 3.8mm (previous, 16.7mm in 1914); Goulburn airport 10.4mm (10.6mm in 2004); Young airport matched its record low of 2.6mm set in 1994; Cootamundra airport 2.7mm (previous, 18.6mm in 2011); Forbes airport 2.2mm (previous, 10mm in 2011); Gundagai 4.6mm (previous, 28.2mm in 2011); Orange airport 4mm (previous, 26.6mm in 2011); Tuggeranong 1.4mm (previous, 11mm in 2011); Cabramurra 21mm (previous, 48.8mm in 2007); Coonamble airport 9.4mm (previous, 15.8mm in 1999); Khancoban 11.2mm (previous, 42.8mm in 2008, and Tooma 10.6mm (previous, 27.2mm in 2008).

Ms McVeigh said the BoM was forecasting the high pressure systems to continue through to spring. She said these systems would bring clear skies, cold nights and warmer days, with the occasional chance of rain between high pressure systems.

She said rain through winter was expected to remain below average for most of NSW.