The SAM influenced weather patterns hitting the South of the continent appeared to be more impacting earlier in Autumn on Australia in 1946 and so in 2020 is only now just catching up with multiple fronts and Antarctica intrusions .
Lets redact from the OP Part 4 is basically the breaking of the Drought.
The story will be increased Rainfall and for Winter similar Cold spells to last year .
Relief for farmers with 14 per cent of NSW now out of drought
Some drought-affected parts of Australia have seen the wettest start of the year in almost a decade, and forecasts are predicting more rain than usual for the rest of the month.
While the world's attention has been focussed on the coronavirus pandemic, mother nature has been quietly staging the hopeful beginnings of a drought recovery for some areas of the country.
In the three months from the beginning of the year until the end of March, rainfall was either "very much above average", or "above average" for the majority of NSW, Victoria and southern Queensland, data released as part of the Bureau of Meteorology's monthly drought update shows.
For the first time in years, there are large patches of green on the NSW drought map, with parts of western NSW recently emerging from official drought status.
According to the Department of Primary Industries, 14 per cent of NSW is now out of drought. This is up from just 1.2 per cent two months ago. A further 8.3 per cent of the state is now classified as recovering from drought. https://www.9news.com.au/national/d...recovers/a506d952-ffde-44c9-a012-b5ab4967dc8c
Melbourne has experienced the wettest start to the year on record, and has had eight times more rain than the same period last year. Key points:
Melbourne has had its wettest start to the year since 1924
This year's rainfall so far already eclipses the total for all of last year
Melbourne has narrowly missed recording its coldest first day of May
A total of 406 millimetres of rain fell on the city between January and the last day of April, 2.8mm shy of the record for that period set 96 years ago.
However, the period up to and including May 1 actually set a new record.
"We can officially say as of this moment it has been [Melbourne's] wettest start to the year," said Bureau of Meteorology Victoria forecaster Dean Stewart on Friday.
The city's gauge passed 408.8mm on Friday, eclipsing the previous year-to-date rainfall record set in 1924.
By the end of April last year, Melbourne had received just 49mm.
Senior climatologist Blair Trewin said April was an especially wet and cold month in south-eastern Australia.
"Victoria, it was the wettest April since 1974, statewide, and in the last couple of days we've seen a very significant cold outbreak for this early in Autumn," Dr Trewin said. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05...victoria-melbourne-wet-start-to-year/12200338
