"Even the rain that falls, isn't actually going to fill our dams and our river systems"
Flannery
A huge rain band has swept parts of SA, delivering record-breaking falls to cities and towns including the capital.The event made for the wettest December day in 75 years in Cleve, on SA’s Central Eyre Peninsula, with 55mm falling in the 24 hours to 9am on Sunday. It caused the nearby Yeldulknie Weir to overflow for the first time in nearly 30 years.
Kimba received 47mm, its heaviest December rainfall in 61 years, while Mount Ive saw 51.2mm, breaking a 53-year-old December rainfall record.
Minlaton, Noarlunga and Edithburg received 47.8mm, 40mm and 36.8mm respectively, all of which broke December rainfall records that were more than 20 years old. For Wudinna in western SA, the event set a historic record of 48.6mm received in one day — the largest single-day deluge since that meter opened in 1999.
While the totals mightn’t sound like much in other parts of the country, they’re notable because SA is usually dry at this time of year.“A lot of places [that are] expected to receive between 50 and 100mm of rain only average about 20mm over the course of a typical December, so that’s double or triple what they normally get.”
Adelaide, for instance, received double its average monthly rainfall for December in a single day. More than 50mm of rain fell on the city on Saturday, trampling its December average of 25.9mm, ...
