General News
28 December, 2023
Rain, storms mark Christmas
Dunolly recorded its highest Christmas Day rainfall in history as storms and flash flooding put a dampener on the festive season across the state. Bureau of Meteorology data shows the 96.2 millimetres that poured down is also the highest daily...
Dunolly recorded its highest Christmas Day rainfall in history as storms and flash flooding put a dampener on the festive season across the state.
Bureau of Meteorology data shows the 96.2 millimetres that poured down is also the highest daily rainfall in Dunolly’s history and marked the largest deluge in all of Victoria.
Paired alongside the 20.8 mm of rainfall on Boxing Day, this makes December the wettest month this year for Dunolly based on only two days of storm conditions.
The 117 mm of rainfall over the two days amounts to 84 percent of the town’s total monthly rain for December, with the tally this month now officially standing at 139 mm.
This already surpasses 1930’s 130.1 mm downpour as the wettest December in the history of Dunolly.
Maryborough was slightly more fortunate, yet the staggering 68 mm trumps the 32.6 mm the town received on July 8 as the highest daily rainfall this year.
This is the highest daily rainfall since January 14, 2011, which was part of the 2011 floods where more than 200 homes and properties were inundated in Carisbrook and around 1000 residents had to be evacuated.
As part of the flash flooding in the community, VicEmergency issued sereral warnings surrounding the Avoca and Loddon rivers.
Levels had peaked around the moderate flood level (5.90 metres) along the Avoca River at Charlton Town and is expected to continue to lower as no significant rainfall has occurred since Wednesday.
Emergency services across the state responded to more than 640 calls for assistance across a 24 hour period covering Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
Calls came for structural damage to buildings and homes following continuous flash flooding and falling trees due to thunderstorms.
The storms continued onto Boxing Day in parts of the state that lead to the deaths of a Caringal man due to a falling tree branch and a Buchan women who was caught in a flash flood.