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Amalia McDonald stayed nice and dry and warm at the 121st Swan Hill Show on Friday. The weather affected attendances on the fi rst day although numbers bounced back for Saturday's events.PHOTO:Pamela Blackman

PETER BANNAN

A SOAKING start to spring forced authorities to issue fl ood warn-ings across the Swan Hill region, with close to 90 millimetres fall-ing across much of September.

Rain fell on 20 days last month, with the highest 24-hour falls recorded on September 14 with 21.4mm.

So far this year a total 306mm has fallen in Swan Hill, including 89mm last month.

September’s record-breaking drenching, which was 63mm above the long-term average, resulted in fl ood warnings on the Avoca, Loddon and Murray river systems.

Previously, the highest fall recorded in Swan Hill for Sep-tember happened in 2004 when 53mm fell.

Swan Hill’s lowest minimum temperature recorded at the aerodrome was 1.9 degrees on the 19th while the warmest day was on the 8th when Swan Hill reached 23.6 degrees.

The highest minimum tem-perature was 13.7 degrees, on the 9th, and the lowest maxi-mum, 12.7 degrees, recorded on the 18th.

The average minimum was 6.6 degrees while the mean maxi-mum was 17.4 degrees.

The mean maximum tem-

perature for September is 20.4 degrees while the average mini-mum temperature is 5.9 degrees.

The highest ever recorded maximum for September hap-pened in 2008 when Swan Hill residents basked in 34.1 degree sunshine on the 27th, while the lowest ever minimum happened in 2011 when a blast of minus 1.6 degrees swept across northern Victoria.

Residents can confidently leave their umbrellas inside for the remainder of the week, when sunshine and partly cloudy days are forecast until at least Sunday, according to meteorologists.

The long-term average rainfall for October is 21.5mm while the average maximum tempera-ture is 24.4 degrees and average minimum temperature is eight degrees.

According to the Bureau of Meteorology, October rainfall is likely to be above-average across northern and eastern Australia with strongest chances over Vic-toria, Tasmania and southern NSW.

“October to December is also likely to be wetter than average for much of the country, except in the north-east and south-west where the chances of a wetter or drier than average three months are roughly equal,” the bureau said in it’s monthly forecast.

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