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A wet January for Hobart and Adelaide

Max Gonzalez, Saturday January 31, 2015 - 13:56 AEDT

The southern capitals of Hobart and Adelaide have joined their eastern state counterparts ending January 2015 with above average rainfall.

In Adelaide, 38mm filled the rain gauges this past month which is 200% above their January mean. This makes it the wettest January since 2007 and the 2nd wettest in 18 years when combining data from the old and new site data at West Terrace and Kent Town.

Temperatures were slightly cooler than average with a mean temperature of 23.2 degrees just 0.1 of a degrees below the average for Adelaide.

Across the Bass Strait, the Apple Isle capital saw 242% of its average January value. With 96.4mm in the rain gauges, this was Hobart's third wettest in 56 years worth of records, behind 2002 and 1971.

Temperatures were just slightly warmer than usual with the average mean for the month coming in at 17.6 degrees, 0.3 of a degree warmer than the norm. Despite the slightly warmer average, this was Hobart's coolest January since 2006.

For both capitals, the short term is looking to be cool and dry with hints of another significant round of heat reaching the South Australian capital later next week.

- Weatherzone

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