Soil Dryness and Drought Factor Table
Soil Dryness Index (SDI) and Drought Factor (DF) observations from weather stations across Tasmania.
(Updates around 10am daily)
***** SOIL DRYNESS INDEX ***** for 9am 09 / 12 / 2024 * Issued by the Bureau of Meteorology, Hobart * Station Rain SDI Forest to 9am mm DF mm ------------------------ ------ --------- ------ Avoca 0.0 87.6 8.1 Beauty Flat Rd 4.9 13.8 4.4 Bicheno 0.0 35.5 5.7 Bothwell 0.0 58.9 6.0 Bull Bay 0.0 61.0 3.2 Burnie 0.0 13.5 4.6 Bushy Park 0.0 67.1 2.6 Campbell Town 0.0 75.1 7.8 Cape Bruny 1.6 36.8 5.1 Colebrook 0.0 41.7 6.1 Devonport East 0.0 13.8 4.8 Dover 0.2 22.6 3.2 Dunalley (Stroud 0.0 44.5 2.6 Eddystone Pt 0.0 26.3 5.3 Erriba 0.0 3.4 4.0 Fingal 0.0 61.8 7.3 Flinders Is Apt 0.0 34.4 5.5 Friendly Beach 0.0 17.6 4.5 Geeveston 0.5 2.0 1.2 Gladstone 0.0 21.8 4.8 Gray (Dalmayne R 4.2 15.0 1.0 Hamilton 0.0 52.6 4.1 Hartz Mtn 2.2 0.0 1.8 Hastings Chalet 0.3 2.2 1.5 Hobart Apt 0.0 84.7 3.7 Hobart City 0.0 27.6 2.1 Huonville 0.0 2.8 1.1 Judbury 0.0 41.8 3.1 Kennaook/Cape Gr 0.0 15.7 4.9 King Is Ap 0.0 16.4 5.3 Lake Leake 0.0 22.5 5.2 Lake St Clair 3.2 0.0 0.9 Launceston Apt 0.0 39.1 7.4 Launceston Apt 0.0 31.4 6.9 Launceston City 0.0 42.8 7.5 Lewis Hill 0.0 45.1 7.3 Liawenee A.W.S. 0.0 8.9 4.8 Llewellyn 0.0 70.8 7.3 Low Head 0.0 13.1 4.5 Low Rocky Pt 2.4 2.4 2.2 Luncheon Hill 2.0 0.4 3.5 Maatsuyker Is 1.6 19.8 3.7 Marrawah 0.0 11.3 4.4 Mathinna 0.0 13.5 5.3 Maydena 0.0 2.0 0.5 Meander 0.0 9.0 4.9 Melton Mowbray 0.2 53.9 4.6 Moogara 0.0 1.6 0.9 Mt Lloyd 0.0 1.6 0.9 Mt Read 7.8 0.0 0.5 Mt Wellington 0.2 0.6 1.4 New Norfolk 0.0 38.4 2.6 Nugent 0.0 2.2 1.1 Oatlands 0.0 58.6 7.2 Orford 0.0 48.5 2.7 Ouse 0.0 36.0 3.1 Palmers L/Out 0.3 2.1 1.6 Pioneer 0.0 34.5 7.0 Poatina 0.0 12.1 4.5 Port Davey 4.0 0.0 1.0 Pyengana 0.0 13.6 2.4 Rosebery 0.3 1.9 1.0 Ross 0.0 78.0 8.0 Savage River 2.2 0.8 1.7 Scotts Peak 2.2 4.5 2.2 Scottsdale 0.0 14.2 4.8 Sheffield 0.0 5.4 3.8 Smithton 0.0 31.7 6.9 St Marys 0.0 18.0 4.1 Strahan Town 0.2 2.2 1.4 Strathgordon 0.3 1.9 0.8 Swansea 0.0 2.9 1.1 Tarraleah Vill 0.8 0.9 1.6 Tea Tree 0.0 39.0 2.5 Temma 0.0 2.2 3.3 Tooms Lake 0.0 25.8 4.9 Tunnack 0.0 41.4 6.5 Upper Esk 0.0 7.0 3.3 Victoria Valley 0.0 31.0 6.9 Waratah 0.0 1.7 2.0 Warra 4.2 0.0 0.6 Westbury 0.0 5.7 4.0 Wynyard 0.2 12.4 5.3 Zeehan 2.9 0.0 2.1