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Rainfall during 1902 in four regions

These maps shows seasonal rainfall difference – summer, autumn, winter, spring – in each region during 1902, the most severe year of the Federation Drought. It also highlights differences according to location. [The maps were prepared by Jarrad Rowe, a then undergraduate student at The University of Melbourne, supported by a scholarship from the ARC …

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Seasonal rainfall deficits in Bendigo during the Federation Drought

Story: This plot shows rainfall variability in each season in Bendigo during the Federation Drought (1895–1903). The rainfall amounts have had the average for each season subtracted so we can see what is above or below ‘normal’. These values have then been divided by the standard deviation (or variability) of the rainfall for each season, …

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