Irwin Juckes Johannesburg rainfall trends

(Updated 1 June 2008)

The season previous season ending June 2007 showed erratic rainfall, ending with 43 mm in June, the highest recorded (according to media reports, the highest since 1948).  At 10 months  we are slightly ahead of the average.

Rainfall records for Johannesburg, South Africa, as recorded by Irwin Juckes from 1983 to 2008.  The recording site is in Edenvale, Ekurhuleni, on the east of greater Johannesburg, and about 10 Km from OR Tambo International Airport.

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Johannesburg is in a summer rainfall region, that has experienced cycles of drier and wetter weather of about 9 years each over the last century. Compare these cycles with my rainfall records from 1983 to 2007.

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These published statistics are for the period from the start of the 20th century to the early 1980's. The rainfall records in this website, recorded in Edenvale, Ekurhuleni, on the east of Johannesburg, begin in 1982. The expectation was that the 1990's would be wetter and the decade of 2000 drier. However the pattern seems to have become less consistent. Could this be due to global warming?