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Thursday 1st February, 2007 MEDIA RELEASE - QUEENSLAND REGIONAL OFFICE January brings welcome rain to the Channel Country, but Southeast Queensland and Capricornia still wantingDuring January an active monsoon triggered the development of a tropical depression which tracked over inland Australia bringing much needed rainfall to the Channel Country, Warrego and Central West and flooding in many inland river systems. A number of longstanding records were broken. Bedourie's January total of 296.4 mm is the highest monthly total recorded in its 61 years of record, and dwarfs the January average of 32.1 mm. Cluny received a monthly total of 483 mm, the highest in its 68 years of record (January average 37.2 mm). Bedourie, with 169.1 mm, and Cluny, with 229 mm, also reported their highest daily rainfall totals on record. The drier than average conditions continued in Southeast Queensland, the Capricornia and Central Coalfields, with totals typically only a third to half of the January average, and parts of the Wide Bay receiving less than a fifth of the norm. Nobby, on the East Darling Downs, recorded it's driest January on record with a total only 4 mm for the month (average 97.3 mm, 67 years of record). After a slow start to the wet season, rainfall was mixed over the tropics with wetter than normal totals in the northwest, and in a few pockets from the central coast to southern Cape York. Below average rainfall was recorded in parts of CapeYork, the Carpentaria and the North Tropical Coast. However, at the turn of the month, an active monsoon trough was producing torrential rainfall and flooding along the north Queensland coast between Tully and Mackay.For more details refer to the Queensland Monthly Climate Summary for January 2007. For further information, please contact Ann Farrell on
(07)32398660. The latest temperature/rainfall maps and seasonal
outlooks for Queensland are available at World Wide Web www.bom.gov.au
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