Tasmania in 2007: Very warm and rather dry

January was especially wet, with a combination of vigorous cold fronts, low pressure systems centred over the state and a few thunderstorms, including rainfall so intense in Hobart that it occurs about one every 50 years on average. Temperatures were above average.
February was very warm, with long periods of very warm temperatures: Launceston had an unprecedented nine straight days reaching 28 °C, and Hobart had three days in a row reaching 31 °C. It was record dry in the west, but several bursts of thunderstorms made it very wet in the northeast.
Summer (including December 2006) was warm overall, and despite the wet January was relatively dry in most areas, and particularly on the North-West Coast.
March had mostly cool days, but some especially hot ones, in particular on the 23rd. Westerlies brought plenty of rain to the western half, but the east was relatively dry.
April was very dry across the state, and some sites in the west, north coast and Midlands had their driest April on record. There were many warm days, with temperatures approaching 30 °C on the 9th and 10th.
May was the warmest on record in Tasmania, with Hobart's record of the last 125 years just one of those broken. Almost all the nights were warmer than average, and the temperature did not once drop below 5 °C in Hobart. It was very wet in the north and west, with Launceston among the sites having their wettest May on record.
Autumn was very warm overall, with several sites having their warmest autumn on record. Rainfall was average (or slightly above) across the state, apart from the southeast which missed out on most of the rain.
June was an exceptionally cold and dry month, and many sites had their coldest or driest June on record. Frosts were common across the state: an example was Grove with 25 nights, including 23 in a row, where the temperature dropped to 2 °C. Liawenee, a cold place at the best of times, had four nights below -8 °C. Many places in the northern and central parts of the state had record low rainfall for June.
July started cold with almost three weeks of below-average daytime temperatures, but a week of mild weather at the end helped restore some balance. Rain in the western two-thirds was below average again.
August was notable for the gale force winds and flooding rain that battered much of Tasmania around the 10th, but there was almost no rain in the last ten days of the month, and the central East Coast missed out on the heaviest falls during the flood event. Temperatures were again above normal.
Winter was relatively dry, despite the flooding rain of August. The cold of June and early July ensured temperatures were mostly below the winter averages.
September had rain close to average, mostly the result of a burst of westerly winds near the end of the month, but in the east it was yet another in the series of drier-than-usual months. Days were mostly warmer than normal, but there some quite cold nights.
October was dominated by westerly winds and cold fronts, above-average rain to the west but below-average to the east. There were also some very warm days but some very cold nights, along with strong wind gusts: typical spring weather for Tasmania.
November was among the driest and warmest Novembers on record for many parts of Tasmania, with a distinct shortage of rain-bearing systems and several very warm days.
Spring was another relatively dry season, despite the rains in the west in October. Warm days predominated, with several places having their warmest spring on record (or nearly so).
December was another warm month, with several outbreaks of thunderstorms. The highest temperature of the year was on the very last day. It was quite wet in some areas, but again relatively dry on the East Coast.