March 2016 rainfall has been checked for a group of sixteen BoM stations listed below and the nine rain stations of Water Corporation from their dam sites. Five of the nine dam sites of Water Corporation registered zero or negligible rain for March. This is obviously in error and is amazingly negligent for an organization that has been preaching about “our drying climate”, bleating on how stream flows have near stopped, while neglecting to manage catchments for over a decade. Several BoM sites are slow to record daily data. The several sites where the same names are used by BoM and WA Govt seem to be different stations.
A month ago I posted – West Australian Govt Water Corporation fails to record March 2016 rain at several dams
March 2016 rain relevant to Perth
water supply catchments
MUNDARING (009030) Looks OK.
MUNDARING WEIR (009031) No data March and April – zero for Feb needs checking.
Mundaring Dam The 0.2mm for March is ridiculous.
BICKLEY (009240) Looks OK.
PICKERING BROOK (009206) Looks OK.
Victoria Dam The 0 for March is ridiculous.
VICTORIA DAM (009216) No data March and April.
KARRAGULLEN NORTH (009015) Looks OK.
Canning Dam Daily readings need checking against neighbours.
Churchman’s Brook The 0 for March is ridiculous.
CHURCHMAN BROOK (009010) The 11 for March needs checking with all zeros from 3rd to 31st March, too unlikely.
BUNGENDORE (009271) Looks OK.
Wungong Dam The 0 for March is ridiculous.
WUNGONG DAM (009044) One rain day in March needs checks. No readings for April.
www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=136&p_display_type=dailyDataFile&p_startYear=&p_c=&p_stn_num=009044
JARRAHDALE (009023) Looks OK.
SERPENTINE (009039) Looks OK.
Serpentine Pipehead Looks OK.
Serpentine Main Dam Daily readings need checking against neighbours.
SERPENTINE MAIN DAM (009115) The single rain day in March is unlikely and needs checks. No readings for April.
www.bom.gov.au/jsp/ncc/cdio/weatherData/av?p_nccObsCode=136&p_display_type=dailyDataFile&p_startYear=&p_c=&p_stn_num=009115
KARNET (009111) BoM says known faulty, should correct in time.
MOUNT SOLUS (009260) Looks OK.
North Dandalup Dam Looks OK.
HUNTLY (009936) Looks OK.
South Dandalup Dam The 0 for March is ridiculous.
DWELLINGUP (009538) Looks OK.
I looked at their “annual streamflow” charts.
Apparently; it’s only permiitted to rain from May to December because January to April aren’t shown as months on the horizontal axis.
This is interesting because most of the SW towns have received well above average rainfall to the end of April. My home town of Manjimup was almost 3 inches above average for this period. I have little doubt that this above average rainfall would have also fallen at South Dandalup.
No rain recorded for 28th and 29th April even though measurable rain fell. It appears that the local tipping bucket is another failure.
This map below from CDO – I have added notes from left clicking on each of the stations –
www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/
supports what you say TedM.
Also shows how poor the network is –
for a populated area –
agricultural region –
in a wealthy nation –
where the State Govt has said – “It has stopped raining in the south west of Western Australia……”..
West Australian Premier talks utter nonsense about rainfall
www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=108
I remember a book yonks ago by Nino Culotta – They’re a Weird Mob (1966) – now a movie I see –
www.imdb.com/title/tt0061087/