Important notes:
- The weather data is updated every morning at 9:45, so please keep checking.
- All the data is expressed in Degrees Celcius or Millimetres.
- Since September 2003 "Chill hours" has been expressed as "(Utah) Chill Units (PDF 92Kb) ".
- For a prediction of your chill unit accumulation go to our *NEW* Chill Unit Prediction Calculator.
- More information on Evapotranspiration (ET or ETo) is available on wikipedia (external link).
- More information on using ETo is available in an Information Note titled Irrigation Scheduling for Vegetable Crops
Swan Hill Weather Station History:
- The station has been supplying data since 1969, when the readings were collected manually.
- The Swan Hill Weather station was installed on a research farm in Tyntynder, now a commercial dairy.
- The weather station was converted to electronic's using a CR10X data logger in the 1990's and since then has been downloaded over the phone.
- Through a special 2007 Department of Primary Industries drought fund, the weather station is now updating the data on the web everyday.
| Picture: The Swan Hill Weather
Station at Tyntynder |
