Month's rainfall is 60 per cent below average
Only 28.7mm of rain has fallen on the Peninsula for the month of September, as of last Friday.
Mr Jim Morrison of Woy Woy said the total for the month as at September 27 was about 40 per cent of the average for the month of 68.5mm.
Most of this rain was recorded on September 17, when a fall of 20.5mm was recorded.
The low rainfall for the month comes after two dry months, in which rainfall was more than 70 per cent below average.
Rainfall this year has followed a similar pattern to last year, when a wet start to the year was followed by six months where rainfall was well below average.
Last year's rainfall was 7.4 per cent below the yearly average.
At this time last year, the cumulative total for the year was just one per cent above average. This year the cumulative total is 1120mm, around 7.3 per cent above the average of 1044mm for this time of year.
Temperatures this month have ranged from a low of 10.7 on September 22 to a high of 32.7 on September 26, according to local weather website www.peninsulaweather.info.
Highest minimum was 17.7 recorded on September 8 and lowest maximum was 18.0 degrees on September 13.
Highest wind gust was 28.1 km/h recorded on September 12.
Spreadsheet, 27 Sep 2013
Jim Morrison, Woy Woy
Other sources:
www.peninsulaweather.info