THE CLIMATE OF AUSTRALIA. 01 Jan 1870. First Drought Recorded In 1789. Two Years After The First Fleet. First Flood 1799.
1870 ‘THE CLIMATE OF AUSTRALIA.’, The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957), 1 January, p. 6. , viewed 15 Jan 2021, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5809485?searchTerm=the%20climate%20of%20australia&searchLimits=#
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.
Sir,—I see frequent allusion in various publications and agricultural reports to the change which is coming over the Australian climate, especially evidenced in the droughts and diminished rainfall during the past few years.
The serious drought of last year, and its ruinous consequences to many engaged in pastoral and agricultural pursuits, renders it to them a most important matter to know if they are likely to experience a recurrence of similar seasons in the future, and if there is any rule by which they may be guided in forming an opinion.
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Table of all the recorded floods and droughts in New South Wales since its first colonisation.
Where no observations are made against any year it may be presumed that the season
was not characterised by any remarkable feature of drought or flood.
DRY PERIOD.
1789 Drought.
1790
1791 Drought
1792
1793
WET PERIOD.
1799 Flood
1800 Flood
1801 Flood
1802
1803
1804
1805 Flood
1806 Flood
1807 Flood
1808 Flood
1809 Flood
1810 Flood
DRY PERIOD.
1794
1795
1796
1797 Drought
1798.
WET PERIOD.
1811 Flood
1812 Flood
1813
1814 Severe drought
1815 Severe drought
1816 Flood
1817 Flood
1818 Slight drought
1819 Flood
1820 Flood
1821 Flood.
DRY PERIOD.
1833
1831
1835 Partial drought
1830 Partial drought
1837 Extreme drought
1838 Extreme drought
1839 Extreme drought
1810 Flood
1811 Slight drought
1812 Slight drought
1822 .
1823 Slight drought
1824 Slight drought
1825
1826 Flood
1827 Severe drought
1828 Severe drought
1829 Severe drought
1830 Flood
1831 Flood
1832 Flood
During the three years 1837, 1838, and
1839 some parts of the country were almost
without any rainfall at all.
WET PERIOD.
1843 Flood ………………………….1854
1844 Flood ………………………… 1855
1845 Drought ……………………. 1856 Flood
1846 Flood ……………………….. 1857 Flood
1847 Flood ……………………….. 1858
1848 Flood ……………………….. 1859 Flood
1849 Drought …………………… 1860
1850 Flood ………………………. 1861 Flood
1851 Flood ………………………. 1862 Flood
1852 Flood ……………………… 1863 Flood
1853 Flood …………………….. 1864 Flood.
DRY PERIOD.
1865 Slight drought ……….. 1868 Partial drought
I866 Slight drought ……….. 1869 Severe drought.
1867 Partial drought