A sound normally so peaceful for so many turned into a worrying sound during October, with Shepparton recording its highest rainfall in the month of October since 1993.
The city’s weather observation station at Shepparton airport recorded 151mm of rain last month.
It was short of the record for October, with 186mm recorded at the previous weather station in Lemnos in October 1993, which also left the region heavily inundated in its last major flood.
That 186mm figure was Shepparton’s highest figure for any month on record.
More than 75mm of rain fell on October 13 (33mm) and October 14 (43.2mm), with two other days recording more than 15mm — October 6 (18.4mm) and October 22 (18.2mm).
While wet, October 14’s figure was short of the city’s rainfall record on a single day — 120.2mm recorded on October 4, 1993.
From 1996 to 2021, November has been Shepparton’s wettest month on average, averaging 45.7mm of rain a year.
On Tuesday, the Bureau of Meteorology recorded the Goulburn River level as steady at 10.82m, which was still at minor flood level.
Goulburn-Murray Water on Tuesday said it would reduce releases from 30,000 megalitres a day down to 26,000Ml a day.
The city’s warmest day was recorded on October 20 at 28ºC, with the following night the warmest overnight temperature at 17.7ºC.
Shepparton’s lowest maximum was just 14ºC on October 5, with the lowest minimum a chilly 1.7ºC overnight on October 10.