Covering Bellingen Shire – from the ocean to the mountains
It gets dry here sometimes!
Not the first time to write along a similar theme this season….After a very hot day on Monday we were lucky to find ourselves sitting just south of the trough through yesterday – and what a difference that made. Grafton, Casino and areas north had very hot temperatures and strong dry winds through the day…and […]
We’ve got a quick cool change coming through for tomorrow – but then a real blast of heat for the end of the Long Weekend. This blast of heat is likely to be a record breaker for some areas of SE Aus with temps up to 16C above normal. Here’s how it pans out from […]
Good Rain – But Summer Coming – Next Week! We had some good rain overnight across our region – but once again very little made it over the hills and into areas that really need it. Here’s the totals to 9am this morning: Recent rains have increased the levels in the Bellinger but without deep […]
Not going to be posting every day…but had to post these images – actually starting to look fairly decent for some rain over the next couple of weeks…and not just for in the valley but also up on the hills as well. Here’s the Bello rain forecast across a range of models for the next […]
We’ve got a change moving through early this week that has the potential to bring some rain. It actually looks like it will bring a lot of rain to the south of us, but more touch and go for our region. Some models show reasonable totals but others show very little. It doesn’t look like […]
Shorter term we could see some rain, but longer term the outlook is weighted towards drier than average.
The latest BoM winter forecast has just come out – and it is looking much drier and warmer than normal across much of SE Australia. Four images below tell the story: Rainfall Forecast: Maximum Temperature (likelihood of the maximum daytime temperature being above normal): Minimum Temperature (likelihood of the minimum nighttime temperature being above normal): […]
How nice has the rain been over the last few days. We’ve been pretty lucky, with other areas missing out. You can see how isolated the rain has been in this map showing rain this month to date across NSW: This map below is used by fire services to help assess fire risk. It shows […]