Weatherzone, By: Max Gonzalez, 11/13/2013
After months of very dry weather, rainfall is finally on the cards for eastern QLD and eastern NSW, bringing the heaviest rains since last summer. Even though April to September are the driest months for areas east of the divide, the past six months have been exceptionally dry for areas extending from Newcastle to Cairns.
The upper Hunter, the Mid North Coast and the southern parts of the Northern Tablelands in NSW received very much below average rainfall from May to October, 100 to 300mm below their six-month average. In QLD, Wide Bay and Burnett and parts of the Central Highlands and Coalfields were the hardest hit, with as much as a 200mm deficit when compared to their April-to-October average. Finally, the season seems to be turning just in time to help mitigate fires along the east with the heaviest falls since last summer.
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