It’s bucketing down

IT MAY be too early to call it a trend, but the Mail’s Upper Yarra rainfall reporter, Keith Thomas, is happy to report that, for the second month running, Warburton received above average rainfall last month.
“With 163.5mm recorded for July, and the average 116.7mm, we are beginning to make up our annual shortfall,” Mr Thomas said.
Mr Thomas has recorded 670.5mm. for the first seven months of this year, just 24mm. short of Warburton’s average of 694.5mm.
He said while Melbourne’s storage dams had profited greatly from the above-average rainfall of the past two months, they still held only 35.8 per cent of capacity, at the end of July.
At the same time last year they held 47.2 per cent and in 2005, 52.2 per cent.
Alma Mitchell in Healesville also had good figures with rain recorded on 28 days of July totalling 121.5mm compared with last July’s 71.3mm over days.