Using that data, here's a graph showing the daily temperature range, in celsius:
(In case it isn't obvious, the shading denotes the different seasons... blue = winter, yellow = summer, etc)
I was surprised, I'd thought it would have had more extremes... more 40 degree plus days and more days below zero. Although there's a clear pattern across the seasons it's not as pronounced as I'd thought. The hottest it got was 41.2 on December 10th, and the coldest -3.4 on 14th June.
Most importantly, here's a graph of the cumulative rainfall, in mm. As of end 2006 there was only 290mm of rainfall for the entire year! That is way below the long-term average of 550mm per year. This alone explains why the dam is so much lower than we've seen it before.
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Hi Lynette
My name is Rob Durbridge and I actually live in Maryborough. I came accross your web site by contacting the Bureau of Meteorology about some stats for Maryborough rainfall and temp as I have a 1000 tree olive grove and needed these for business reasons, they sent what I wanted plus your web site details. I like your dream as this district is a great place to live and steep in gold mining history, especially Amherst. As a kid I spent many days in Amherst hunting, mushrooming, cuting wood etc with my father who showed me the locations of historic sites around Amherst, things like the old hospital, The Amherst water supply,ruins of Eucalyptus oil plants, gold mines etc. Unfortunately a lot of these old buildings were distroyed in 1985 by the worst bushfire the region has seen. Any way good on ya, keep up the good work.
Regards
Rob
Email rjdurb@bigpond.net.au
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