Driest January and February in 10 years
The Peninsula has had the driest first two months of the year in 10 years.
The cumulative total rainfall for January and February was 165.5mm, according to figures provided by Mr Jim Morrison of Umina.
The average total for the two months is 282mm.
The February rainfall was 84.8mm, just over half the month's average of 160mm.
The least rain to fall on the Peninsula during January and February was in 2011, when the total was 104.9mm.
In 2019, the driest year in the last 16, the rainfall for the two months totalled 168.5mm, three millimetres more than this year.
In that year, rainfall for the year was less than 80 per cent the average with a total for the year of 992.9mm.
SOURCE:
Spreadsheet, 5 Mar 2021
Jim Morrison, Umina