April Rainfall
Maleny Monthly Rainfall
April turned out to be a wet month with rain on 16 days giving 429.0 mm. This represents an increase of 248 mm over the 117 year average and a twenty year record rainfall for Maleny. Anzac Day on the 25th was cloudless when Kay and I stood with a large silent crowd at the dawn service to remember the fallen who gave their lives for their country. Our thoughts also recalled the same service held in the RSL Hall twenty years ago. The year was 1989 and torrential rain had been falling for four days. We huddled together with just a handful of people. The minister Malcolm Eberhard said prayers that we were unable to hear as ceaseless rain hammered the tin roof. Outside the wind shrieked and howled in a kind of agony for all those who gave up their lives for their country.
April 1989 was the wettest month ever to be recorded at Maleny. It started with ex-TC “Aivu” bringing in a rain depression early in the month. Later in the month another rain depression brought in four days of torrential rain, including Anzac Day, and this increased the total for the month to 1051.9 mm. Creeks overflowed and flash flooding was wide-spread. The Yabba Yabba Bridge on the Maleny/Kenilworth Road was swept away.