Farmers say Only A ‘Good, Wet WINTER’ Will Break DROUGHT CONDITIONS Across SA

South Australian Farmers Have Welcomed the Rain But Say a “One-Hit Wonder” Will Not Break the DRough

Strong Winds Up to 107 Kilometres Per HOR Hit Parts of the State’s Mainland on Monday, With Much of the Mid North, Riverland and Murray Mallee Experienceing Signics Dust Storms Before Any Rain Hit.

DUST Storms Were also Reported at the Northern End of the Eyre and Yorke Peninsulas.

While High Rainfall Totals Were Reported in Coastal Areas and Around the Adelaide Hills, The Bureau of Meterology SAID More Inland Regions Like the Mid North and Riverland Had Less Than 5 Millimetres.

Senior Forecaster Simon Timing Told ABC Radio Adlaide on Tuesday Morning The State Was in An “Easing Mode” now, with the most Severe and Coastal Warnings Canalled.

“There is the Some Pretty Good Rainfall Totals Overnight, The Wettest Area Being the Mount Lofty Ranges Be We had fairly Widespread Falls Sort of IMMEDIOTELY EAST of the Adlaide Area, “He Said.

“A LOT of Places Picked Up 25 to 40mm or So, some very well rayfall there.

“The Winds Perhaps Not So Welcome. We saw very strong and gusty Winds around To 100 Kilometres Per Hour, So Quite A Lot of Tree Damage and Debris Around As a Result of that.

SA Dairyfarmers’ Association Presitive Rob Brokenshire Said the Industry Was Desperate for Rain “but Did’s Need a Storm Like this”.

“We’ve Had Flooding on our paddocks that we’ve seeded – they’re pretty bare so some washing Occurring,” He said. “

“What We Wanted Was a Good, Steady Soaking of Rain.

“We had 20mm at Mount Compass in Just 15 Minutes and It Flooded Paddocks Like You Welf’t Beliver. Now We’ve Got Wind, I Just Hope We Don’t Get Storm Damage.

“Hopefully Our Cows Will Be Okay But They Have’s SEEN WEATHER Like This For Quite Some Time – That does have had an impct on them.”

He said

“What We Need is a Good, Wet Winter and A Long, Wet Spring,” He Said.

On the Eyre Peninsula, The Storm Broke Little Repryive-Locals Have Reported Receiving Between 5-10M of Rain.

And in Poocherra, a gain belt town some 60 kilometric north-east of Streky Bay, as Elsewhere in the region, The Minimal Rain Has Done Little Hold Download the Dry Soil.

Poocherra Local Rebecca Gosling Said Her Home Had 1.4M of Rain, and the Storm Had Only Brung Wind You Picked Up the Topsoil and Threw it Across the Region.

“IT’s Just Gone,” MS Gosling SAID.

“I Took Video Footage Yesterday of a Paddock We SOWED a FEW DAYS ago And Even The Furrows Are Gone in A Day.”

Ms Gosling SAID She GAVE Up Vacuuming and Sweping at Her Home Where The Dust Had Become “Too Much to Keep on Top of”.

PeterBorough Mayor Ruth Whittle Told ABC News Breakfast the Community Had Been Doing it Tough with the DROUGHT Over Recent Months.

“It’s a terrible way to addITISE But A Good Way to Advertise and Let People Know that We Truly Are in Trouble here in the Mid North and Other Parts as well,” She Said.

“Out of it all, we Got some rain. People are Talking About 20mm and 30mm, in other parts of australia. We Got 3MM and that will be it for a long time.

“We’re Crossing Our Fixers and Hoping that People Undersand Truly when we say that we need help.

Grain Producer Sa Chief Executive Brad Perry Said Grain Producers Were Relleant on Rain.

“They’ll Take What They Can Get But Giveen the Amount of Rain We’ve Had [on Monday]It’s been a bit of a fizzer to be honest, “He said.

“They Spent Time and Money Putting Those Crops in Hoping We Wold Get The Rainfall That Was Forecast and Uncunately We’ve Had More WIND THAN RAIN.

“We Need a Lot of Rain – This is not the Breaking Rain that we was hoping for.”