Victoria a state of extremes in 2015
SWAN Hill has experienced its driest year since the height of the millennium drought.
SWAN Hill has experienced its driest year since the height of the millennium drought.
The Murray River town recorded just 177.4mm of rain last year, making it the driest place in Victoria in 2015, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
It was the lowest annual rainfall in the town since 2006, when 171mm was recorded.
Agrivision Swan Hill general manager Kent Wooding said it had been a tough year but growers should be congratulated for their land management.
“The condition of the paddocks is a real credit to the growers and their modern farming practices,” Mr Wooding said.
“They’re holding together really well with all the wind we have had. Go back 20 years ago and we would have had blackouts from the dust.”
The wettest place in Victoria last year was Mt Sabine in the Otway Ranges, which received 845.8mm.
McKillops Bridge, in the Snowy River National Park, experienced the wettest day, when 149.2mm fell on February 18.
Victoria’s hottest day of 2015 was December 19, when the temperature hit 45C at Avalon Airport.
The coldest day was June 1, when the daytime temperature reached just -5.4C at Mt Hotham, and the coldest night was -8.6C on August 4 at Falls Creek.
Wilsons Promontory was the windiest place, recording gusts of 156.5km/h on March 5.
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