Rainfall was above average

Rainfall on the Peninsula last month was well above the monthly average for July, according to local rainfall records.

Rainfall of 116mm was recorded last month at Hillview St, Woy Woy, and of 105mm was recorded at Umina Public School.

This came after four months with rainfall well below average.

Mr Jim Morrison who recorded the rainfall at Hillview St said that July rainfall was 20 per cent up on what he believed was the July average of 97.5mm.

However, it was up to 50 per cent higher than July averages for weather stations at Peats Ridge and Narara.

Figures from the Bureau of Meteorology showed the July average at Narara was just 79.0mm and at Peats Ridge was 71.1mm, while at Sydney airport the average was 68.8.

Mr Morrison said that 243mm had fallen at Hillview St in the previous four months.

He said this was less than 50 per cent of the average rainfall for those months.

During the same four months, 238mm had fallen at Umina Primary School, according to teacher Ms Sonja Stein.

Rainfall for the year at Hillview St was 607.5mm, 73.5 per cent of the average rainfall for the period.

Mark Snell, August 2