Can anybody point me to a web page that has annual totals of rainfall
going way back for capital cities?

try www.weather.com It is a yank site but enter your city into the first
slot and on next page look at both the monthly and daily averages. Do not
believe any forecast they give you beyond 5 days as it will be as useful as
a chocolate fireguard.

Not as printer friendly as it was 6 months ago.
Me 'ubby uses this site when planning our south american trips and finds it
accurate.

cheers, helene

"Richard Wright" wrote in message
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Can anybody point me to a web page that has annual totals of rainfall
going way back for capital cities?

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Richard Wright wrote:

Can anybody point me to a web page that has annual totals of rainfall
going way back for capital cities?

Try the BOM -- www.bom.gov.au

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

"Life is like a cigarette -- smoke it to the butt." -- Harvie Krumpet

Have a look round our local "bom"! There is a lot there to check out and you
can get all sorts of rainfall and other maps if you spend an hour exploring
their site.

http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR502.shtml#image

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDG00074.shtml

are in my weather bookmarks, but I'm sure you will find something of
interest there.

Peter

"helene" wrote in message
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try www.weather.com It is a yank site but enter your city into the first
slot and on next page look at both the monthly and daily averages. Do not
believe any forecast they give you beyond 5 days as it will be as useful
as
a chocolate fireguard.

Not as printer friendly as it was 6 months ago.
Me 'ubby uses this site when planning our south american trips and finds
it
accurate.

cheers, helene

"Richard Wright" wrote in message
...
Can anybody point me to a web page that has annual totals of rainfall
going way back for capital cities?

Thanks, I spent the hour but couldn't find a link. Specifically I
don't want averages or maps. What I want are the actual annual totals
from 2003 back as far as records go.

On Fri, 28 May 2004 23:01:18 +1000, "Bushy"
wrote:

Have a look round our local "bom"! There is a lot there to check out and you
can get all sorts of rainfall and other maps if you spend an hour exploring
their site.

http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR502.shtml#image

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDG00074.shtml

are in my weather bookmarks, but I'm sure you will find something of
interest there.

Peter

"helene" wrote in message
...
try www.weather.com It is a yank site but enter your city into the first
slot and on next page look at both the monthly and daily averages. Do not
believe any forecast they give you beyond 5 days as it will be as useful
as
a chocolate fireguard.

Not as printer friendly as it was 6 months ago.
Me 'ubby uses this site when planning our south american trips and finds
it
accurate.

cheers, helene

"Richard Wright" wrote in message
...
Can anybody point me to a web page that has annual totals of rainfall
going way back for capital cities?

"Richard Wright" wrote in message
...
Thanks, I spent the hour but couldn't find a link. Specifically I
don't want averages or maps. What I want are the actual annual totals
from 2003 back as far as records go.

On Fri, 28 May 2004 23:01:18 +1000, "Bushy"
wrote:


Richard,

In QLD, there is a product sold through our Dept of Primary Industries &
Fisheries called 'Rainman'. I understand it has rainfall totals for all
weather stations in QLD, back as far as they have records for. Some of the
totals we were being shown were from around 1900.
Have a look at this link: http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/rainman/13233.html
It says that Rainman covers rainfall readings from 250 locations around
Australia for the standard & educational version, wheras the professional
version covers 3700 locations in Australia. Standard & Ed versions are worth
$125, and the pro version is $450. The data can be updated regularly from
the internet, so it seems easy to keep up to date. The data goes down to
daily totals.

It might be a bit beyond the dollars you are prepared to spend, but it would
certainly cover what you want to do.
--


Cheers,

Rod.......Out Back

http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/how/

This link tells what is available free and what you pay for. If it is
current it is free, if they have to access the system to provide it, you
pay.
What you want is a payable service.
Jim

Thanks. This looks like exactly what I want.

On Fri, 28 May 2004 22:52:12 GMT, "Rod Out back"
wrote:

"Richard Wright" wrote in message
.. .
Thanks, I spent the hour but couldn't find a link. Specifically I
don't want averages or maps. What I want are the actual annual totals
from 2003 back as far as records go.

On Fri, 28 May 2004 23:01:18 +1000, "Bushy"
wrote:


Richard,

In QLD, there is a product sold through our Dept of Primary Industries &
Fisheries called 'Rainman'. I understand it has rainfall totals for all
weather stations in QLD, back as far as they have records for. Some of the
totals we were being shown were from around 1900.
Have a look at this link: http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/rainman/13233.html
It says that Rainman covers rainfall readings from 250 locations around
Australia for the standard & educational version, wheras the professional
version covers 3700 locations in Australia. Standard & Ed versions are worth
$125, and the pro version is $450. The data can be updated regularly from
the internet, so it seems easy to keep up to date. The data goes down to
daily totals.

It might be a bit beyond the dollars you are prepared to spend, but it would
certainly cover what you want to do.

if you go to and click on the individual station it will give you last years
fall as well as the monthly and yealy average rainfalls.
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/observ....jsp?state=NSW


dann


"Richard Wright" wrote in message
...
Thanks. This looks like exactly what I want.

On Fri, 28 May 2004 22:52:12 GMT, "Rod Out back"
wrote:

"Richard Wright" wrote in message
.. .
Thanks, I spent the hour but couldn't find a link. Specifically I
don't want averages or maps. What I want are the actual annual totals
from 2003 back as far as records go.

On Fri, 28 May 2004 23:01:18 +1000, "Bushy"
wrote:


Richard,

In QLD, there is a product sold through our Dept of Primary Industries &
Fisheries called 'Rainman'. I understand it has rainfall totals for all
weather stations in QLD, back as far as they have records for. Some of
the
totals we were being shown were from around 1900.
Have a look at this link: http://www.dpi.qld.gov.au/rainman/13233.html
It says that Rainman covers rainfall readings from 250 locations around
Australia for the standard & educational version, wheras the professional
version covers 3700 locations in Australia. Standard & Ed versions are
worth
$125, and the pro version is $450. The data can be updated regularly from
the internet, so it seems easy to keep up to date. The data goes down to
daily totals.

It might be a bit beyond the dollars you are prepared to spend, but it
would
certainly cover what you want to do.