FARMERS in and around Parkes continue to rejoice, with 81mm falling in June.
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The winter cropping season got off to the perfect start, and according to Don White at WeatherWatch, that is likely to continue.
The main area of interest in climatic indicator developments in recent weeks has been in the Indian Ocean.
This is especially the case in the long term (months) with increasing likelihood that the Indian Ocean Dipole will be negative for much of winter and early spring at least.
In addition, long range climatic models are suggesting the potential for another cool neutral or weak La Nina event in the Pacific Ocean by mid to late spring, although the situation in both oceans remains somewhat complicated.
Winter rainfall in NSW can be influenced by the Indian Ocean especially. This is because most weather systems in winter tend to move from west to east meaning that the Indian Ocean tends to play a more significant role in rainfall.
Over large parts of the Indian Ocean, sea surface temperatures remain above average. The patterns appear sufficient to generate an increase in rainfall potential for south east Australia, as this moisture gets drawn across in cloud bands by frontal systems.
That's good news for our farmers, with spring rainfall the most important to winter croppers.
Since 1942, the average June rainfall for the area is 53.2mm, and with June's rain that now means since May 4 we've now seen over 100mm of rain fall in the region.
The average lowest temperature in June was 6.9, though fortunately just one day of minus temperatures were recorded.
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