Posted on the Guardian website 16 April 2025. Article by Petra Stock and Graham Readfearn. Photo by Landscapes Hills and Fleurieu via the Guardian.
Parts of the state record their lowest rainfall on record, with devastating impacts on freshwater fish, butterflies, bees and even some hardy trees
Large swathes of the state – including the Adelaide Plains, the Fleurieu, Yorke
andEyre peninsulas and upper south-east – have seen the lowest rainfall on record in the 14 months since February 2024, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
“The one thing we need more than anything else is rain,” the state premier, Peter Malinauskas, said last week.
Off the back of the state’s driest summer since 2018-19, this year weather stations across Adelaide, Mount Barker and Mount Lofty have recorded just 20% of their usual rain.
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