Adelaide
Rainfall
 Adelaide's
average rainfall is low-around 520 mm. a year. The pattern is for
a dry period from November to April, which receives a paltry 160
mm., with a wet season from May to October enjoying more than twice
as much rain- about 360 mm. In Adelaide, it definitely makes sense
to stock up your water tanks well before summer arrives.
Here's
how to calculate how much water you can collect from your roof.
Take the number of square metres of roof, muliply by the number
of millimetres of rainfall, to give the number of litres. e.g. If
you have 150 square metres of roof, and the average Adelaide rainfall
is 520 mm, then you could collect over 78,000 litres a year. A 10mm
rainfall would yield 1500 litres! In both cases, it's safest to
subtract 10% to allow for absorbtion, evaporation etc.
For
your information, here is the official Adelaide monthly average
rainfall graph, together with the average number of rain days, supplied
by the Bureau of Meteorology.
If
you live in Adelaide (or elsewhere in South Australia), we'd like
to help you with your water tank requirements. Learn more at our
Adelaide
Water Tanks page.
Thinking
about a water tank- your own, personal water supply? Visit our
Water
Tanks for Adelaide page.
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