{"id":6353,"date":"2025-01-01T02:03:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T15:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=6353"},"modified":"2025-01-01T02:03:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T15:03:53","slug":"the-climate-of-australia-01-jan-1870-first-drought-recorded-in-1789-two-years-after-the-first-fleet-first-flood-1799","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=6353","title":{"rendered":"THE CLIMATE OF AUSTRALIA. 01 Jan 1870. First Drought Recorded In 1789. Two Years After The First Fleet. First Flood 1799."},"content":{"rendered":"

1870 \u2018THE CLIMATE OF AUSTRALIA.\u2019, The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 \u2013 1957)<\/i>, 1 January, p. 6. , viewed 1 Jan 2024, https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\/newspaper\/article\/5809485?searchTerm=the%20climate%20of%20australia&searchLimits=#<\/a><\/p>\n

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE ARGUS.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sir,\u2014I 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.<\/div>\n
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.<\/div>\n
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Table of all the recorded floods and droughts in New South Wales since its first colonisation.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Where no observations are made against any year it may be presumed that the season<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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was not characterised by any remarkable feature of drought or flood.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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DRY PERIOD.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1789 Drought.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1790<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1791 Drought<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1792<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1793<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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WET PERIOD.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1799 Flood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1800 Flood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1801 Flood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1804<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1805 Flood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1806 Flood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1807 Flood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1808 Flood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1809 Flood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1810 Flood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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DRY PERIOD.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1794<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1795<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1796<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1797 Drought<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1798.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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WET PERIOD.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1811 Flood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1812 Flood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1814 Severe drought<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1815 Severe drought<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1816 Flood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1817 Flood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1818 Slight drought<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1819 Flood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1820 Flood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1821 Flood.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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DRY PERIOD.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1833<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1831<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1835 Partial drought<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1830 Partial drought<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1837 Extreme drought<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1838 Extreme drought<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1839 Extreme drought<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1810 Flood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1811 Slight drought<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1812 Slight drought<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1823 Slight drought<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1824 Slight drought<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1825<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1826 Flood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1827 Severe drought<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1828 Severe drought<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1829 Severe drought<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1830 Flood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1831 Flood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1832 Flood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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During the three years 1837, 1838, and<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1839 some parts of the country were almost<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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without any rainfall at all.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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WET PERIOD.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1843 Flood \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.1854<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1844 Flood \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 1855<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1845 Drought \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. 1856 Flood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1846 Flood \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. 1857 Flood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1847 Flood \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. 1858<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1848 Flood \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. 1859 Flood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1849 Drought \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 1860<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1850 Flood \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. 1861 Flood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1851 Flood \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026. 1862 Flood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1852 Flood \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026 1863 Flood<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1853 Flood \u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.. 1864 Flood.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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DRY PERIOD.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1865 Slight drought \u2026\u2026\u2026.. 1868 Partial drought<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I866 Slight drought \u2026\u2026\u2026.. 1869 Severe drought.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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1867 Partial drought<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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