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Tuesday, 21 June 2005

MEDIA STATEMENT - SOUTH AUSTRALIAN REGIONAL OFFICE

Record Daily Rainfall for June

Over the last week several stations in South Australia recorded their highest daily (24 hourly) rainfall totals for the month of June.

Those stations which have at least 30 years of record are listed below;

Locations with highest daily rainfall for June

Location Date Rainfall
Previous
record
Date Number of
years of data
Adelaide Regional Office 21st 54.6mm 53.6mm 1/06/1920 168
Edinburgh RAAF 21st 51.0mm 41.8 5/06/1988 32
Nundroo 20th 39.0mm 36.2mm 1/06/1989 72
Inman Valley 19th 66.6mm 55.4mm 24/06/1987 72
Willunga 14th 68.6mm 55.6mm 27/06/1990 143


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Please note that the records at Adelaide Regional Office and Edinburgh RAAF were broken this morning.

Also, severe weather warnings have been issued for parts of South Australia for this afternoon, Tuesday, 21 June 2005. For the latest warnings please refer to; http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/sa/

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Further information:
Richard Szkup, tel: (08) 8366 2691, e-mail: climate.sa@bom.gov.au