From the driest June to the wettest July
June rainfall on the Peninsula was just 12.6mm, the driest in 18 years.
However, 283.5mm has fallen in the first week of July, making it already the wettest July in the same period.
The June rainfall was just nine per cent of that month's average of 155mm, while the July rainfall is already 3.4 times the average of 64mm.
With a total rainfall to date this year of 1624.3 mm, this year is already the second wettest in 18 years, just behind 2020 when the total for the whole year was 1685.6mm.
According to records taken at the Everglades Country Club from 1966 to 1998 for the Bureau of Meteorology, no June rainfall was less than 14.9mm and no July recorded more than 190.4mm in the same period.
The records show that only the three years 1988-1990 had a greater annual rainfall than 1685.6mm, with totals between 1789.8 and 2119.5mm.
SOURCE:
Spreadsheet, 8 Jul 2022
Jim Morrison, Umina