Alternating wet and dry

The Peninsula has started 2016 with alternating wet and dry months.

January was wet with 343.4mm of rain, more than two and a half times the average rainfall for that month.

February was dry with only 22mm, 15 per cent of average rainfall.

March was wet with 237.5mm, more than twice the average.

As at April 15, only 16.2mm of rain had been recorded for the month, less than 10 per cent of the monthly average, according to figures supplied by Mr Jim Morrison of Woy Woy.

The April monthly average rainfall is 182mm.

The rainfall for the year to date stands at 619.2mm, 7.3 per cent above the cumulative average at the end of April of 577mm.

Spreadsheet, 15 Apr 2016

Jim Morrison, Woy Woy