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Drought breaking rain soaks most farming regions
27 Jun 2005
For farmers across the agricultural belts of Australia, the recent rains - coming on the back of the driest autumn on record in Victoria and South Australia and the second driest in NSW - were the best break the eastern states had seen for a long time. In the past week, rain fell over most of the country's south and east, with falls of between 50mm and 100mm north of Adelaide, over the alpine regions of Victoria and NSW, and across central-western Queensland. Several South Australian weather stations recorded record one-day falls for June. "It is years and years and years since we've had a general break that has covered almost every district in every state," the Graingrowers Association said. But the Graingrowers Association said the wet weather was still short of drought-breaking. "You couldn't say it's over. There has to be follow-ups through until the spring before you can really say the drought is over."
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