Drought vs rainfall over a century
Three multi-year droughts since 1900 are visible in the long-run series: WWII drought, the Federation drought aftermath, and the Millennium drought.
Series in this chart
- 12-month rainfall deficit
/v1/weather/drought-index
Code that produces this
cURL
curl https://api.ausdata.io/v1/weather/drought-index \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"Methodology
12-month rolling rainfall vs long-run baseline.
Takeaways
- Millennium drought lasted from 1997 to 2009.
- 2017 to 2019 NSW drought was the most intense single 3-year period on record.