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Climate

Local weatherman Les Herse has been the Brisbane Bureau of Meteorology's official Palmwoods weather observer for the past 17 years - but he has been keeping his own records since 1950 and has records previously kept by the post office which date back to 1916.

He has a special rain gauge in his backyard which is checked every morning when there's a hint of rain in the air.

The readings are then logged direct to the weather bureau through a special remote observer terminal fitted to his telephone.

Anything over one millimetre is recorded.


Climate records are available in normal table form and also as spreadsheets in MS-Works format.
This may be useful for schools looking at analysis of rainfall patterns, applications of spreadsheets, or mathematical correlation of rainfall with other factors such as stream flows.

For information on configuring your web browser to display spreadsheets, see the information on
Using spreadsheets

Table

Spreadsheet file

Rainfall 1966-1996

rain6696.wks


Some material on Palmwoods climate is reproduced by courtesy of Palmwoods District News

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