Category: Agriculture

7 April 2025 | Data: Bureau of Meteorology

Townsville surpasses rainfall record by wide margin.

Townsville, Queensland, has surpassed it’s water year rainfall record by a substantial amount with 3114.2mm to April 6th and 3 months of observations to account for. The previous record from year ending June1890 was 2520mm. 594.2mm represents a 23.5% increase on anything observed in the composite record commencing1872. The record includes two stations 32047 (Townsville Pilot Station to1940) and 32040 (Townsville Airport from 1941). At April 6th, the calendar year record is 30mm behind the 1894 calendar year 2482.6mm record with 9 months of observations to include.

14 August 2024

Dry July in Belgium

August 1st, 2024. The head of forecasting at the Belgian Royal Meteorological Institute advised that there had only been 5 days of rain in Brussels in July 2024, the lowest for 137 years. The observation site at Uccle, in the southern suburbs of Brussels has been collecting data since 1833. Lower numbers of rain days were were observed in 1885 (2 days),1869 (4 days) and 1835 (4 days). The Belgian drought comes 3 years after the wettest July on record at the site.

16 July 2024

UK Farming Output Fell in 2023

July 16th, 2024. Income from farming in England reduced by 19% year on year following the wettest 18 month period since 1836, according to data from the UK Govt and UK Met office. Farming contribution to the UK economy reduced by 8.7% to 1 billion GBP. The cause was part price collapse, and part poor yields caused by the extended wet weather.