{"id":269128,"date":"2025-08-19T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=269128"},"modified":"2025-08-19T14:13:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T04:13:31","slug":"sydney-records-most-rain-since-weather-station-opened-in-1858","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=269128","title":{"rendered":"Sydney records most rain since weather station opened in 1858"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sydney’s wettest August in 27 years has tipped the city’s recent climate into uncharted territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Analysing the complete weather history at Observatory Hill dating back to 1858 reveals rainfall during the past six years has been the most on record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since January 2020, the city has collected more than 9,300 millimetres \u2014 beating the old record of 9,120mm from 1985 to 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Considering heavy rain will continue this week and more than four months remain in 2025, the record total will surge even further above all previous six-year intervals by the end of December.<\/p>\n\n\n

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From drought to deluge: What turned Sydney’s weather<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

After a severe multi-year drought from 2017 to 2019, the weather along the New South Wales coast took a dramatic turn in early 2020 when flooding rains resulted in the wettest February in three decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the start of what eventually became Sydney’s wettest year so far this century \u2014 a 2020 annual total of 1,552mm against the long-term average of 1,221mm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another wetter than normal year followed in 2021 (1,290mm), before an improbable 2022 produced a record 2,530mm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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