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Sydney is set to break a 60-year rainfall record

We have received over two metres of rain for the first time since 1950

Maya Skidmore
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Maya Skidmore
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If you’ve been in Sydney on pretty much any day at all in this past year, you’re probably aware of the fact that it’s been more than a little wet. Turns out, science is backing all our mould-ridden feels up with cold, hard facts. It feels good to be validated. 

According to data collected by the weather station at Observatory Hill at 10pm on Friday, August 26, more than six millimetres of rainfall were recorded as falling from 9am. This data is big news, with it making Sydney’s total yearly rainfall click to over two metres for the first time in almost 60 years. The most shocking part of this? The year isn't even over yet. 

This is the fourth time since records began in the 1850s that Sydney has received over two metres of rain within a year, and, with only four months left of 2022, meteorologists are saying that we only need another 200mm to break an all-time record. Someone call the people over at Guinness World Records, right now. 

Sydney’s wettest year on record was 1950, when 2,194 millimetres of rain fell on Observatory Hill, with the only two other times that over two metres of rain has fallen in a 12 month period in Sydney’s recorded history being in 1860 and 1890, respectively. Now, with another wildly wet spring beckoning on the horizon, it looks like us Sydneysiders of 2022 may be in for a record-breaking year yet. 


So, buckle up your brollies folks, and get ready to have a whole lotta fun inside. Luckily, we’ve got you covered.

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