You’ll be able to see the rainfall deficiency areas marked in numerous shades of pink on the map under – the darker the shade, the more serious the deficiency.
Whereas massive elements of the nation are unaffected (the white areas), lots of the extreme deficiencies are in key food-growing areas, which is a priority for everybody from farmers to clients on the grocery store checkout.
One other worrying sample within the map is that deficiencies exist within the speedy neighborhood of virtually all state or territory capitals, which implies water storage reservoirs could quickly really feel the pinch.
“Storage ranges stay low in some elements of southern and central Queensland, south-eastern elements of New South Wales, central Tasmania, and concrete areas of Perth,” the BoM mentioned in its assertion.
The map above reveals the quantity of rain that fell within the week up till 9am Saturday.
As you’d anticipate, there was very heavy rainfall (the darkish inexperienced, blue and purple blobs) within the flood-affected areas of in Victoria and southern NSW.
However solely reasonable quantities of rain fell in many of the long-term rain-deficient areas seen within the first map, that means that this week’s occasion has performed little to stop drought growing additional afield as spring turns to summer time.
The BoM mentioned in its drought assertion that under median rainfall is “prone to very seemingly” for a lot of western, northern and southern Australia for November 2023 via to January 2024.
Solely small areas of northern New South Wales have a barely elevated likelihood of above median rainfall in that interval, the BoM mentioned.
