THE garden may not be showing it, but Ballarat has enjoyed a slightly above-average rainfall for the first three months of the year.
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March rainfall came in slightly lower than average with only 35 millimetres filling the gauge compared to a long term average of 44mm.
This follows on from an above-average February with 53mm and January with 77.8mm bringing the year-to-date rainfall to 165.6mm.
This is almost one third above the long-term average of 125mm.
But if the yellowing trees and dry grass seem to belie the statistics, it’s perhaps because the above-average figures follow on from a six-month stint of below-average rainfall in 2014.
The total rainfall for 2014 was only 460mm, a full third below the average Ballarat annual total of 690mm.
In keeping with these changing patterns, the majority of Ballarat rainfall is now falling in larger summer events.
Last month 14.6mm of the rain – or about 40 per cent – fell on March 18.
In February, 83 per cent of the rainfall fell on a single day on the 15th.
