Lake Cargelligo Airport is a weather station located 169 m above sea level, 2 km from Lake Cargelligo. Its records go back to 1882: 18 years of temperature are available up to 2020, along with rainfall and a comparison with two reference normals. Closed series: the records of this station end in 2020. Over 1991–2020 the annual mean temperature there is 18.2 °C; the 1961–1990 period is not documented well enough to compare. The warmest year of the series is 2002 (18.7 °C) and the coldest 2000 (17.0 °C). The last complete year, 2017, ranks 1 out of 18, from warmest to coldest. Over 1961–2020, the annual mean temperature changes by +0.55 °C per decade. The station ranks 1 out of 227 stations, from the fastest rise to the slowest.
Annual mean temperature since 1882
Of the ten warmest years in the series, 7 fall after 1999. The warmest is 2002 (18.7 °C). The ten-year running mean peaks at 18.1 °C (2009) and bottoms out at 17.6 °C (2000).
Annual rainfall since 1882
On average 417 mm of rain falls per year over the 130 documented years. The wettest year, 1956, received 891 mm; the driest, 1967, only 142 mm, which is 6.3 times less. The 1991–2020 normal (399 mm per year) is 27 mm (6.3 %) below the 1961–1990 one (426 mm). Over 1991–2020, February is on average the wettest month (38 mm) and April the driest (19 mm). Between 1998 and 2020, 7 years out of 20 exceeded the series average.
Monthly normals: 1961–1990 against 1991–2020
The table compares, month by month, the mean temperature and the rainfall total of two thirty-year reference periods. The difference column shows what the recent period changes compared with the earlier one.
| Month | Temp. 1961–1990 | Temp. 1991–2020 | Difference | Rain 1961–1990 | Rain 1991–2020 | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | – | 27.3 °C | – | 40 mm | 37 mm | −3 mm |
| February | – | 26.0 °C | – | 26 mm | 38 mm | +12 mm |
| March | – | 22.6 °C | – | 38 mm | 34 mm | −4 mm |
| April | – | 18.2 °C | – | 36 mm | 19 mm | −17 mm |
| May | – | 13.6 °C | – | 43 mm | 26 mm | −17 mm |
| June | – | 10.7 °C | – | 28 mm | 38 mm | +10 mm |
| July | – | 9.7 °C | – | 35 mm | 37 mm | +2 mm |
| August | – | 10.9 °C | – | 33 mm | 29 mm | −4 mm |
| September | – | 14.4 °C | – | 34 mm | 34 mm | 0 mm |
| October | – | 18.1 °C | – | 43 mm | 35 mm | −8 mm |
| November | – | 21.9 °C | – | 37 mm | 36 mm | −1 mm |
| December | – | 24.7 °C | – | 33 mm | 36 mm | +3 mm |
For rainfall, the largest difference is in February (+12 mm) and the smallest in April (−17 mm).
Records at Lake Cargelligo Airport
- Warmest year: 18.7 °C, in 2002
- Coldest year: 17.0 °C, in 2000
- Driest year: 142 mm, in 1967
- Wettest year: 891 mm, in 1956
- Warmest month: 32.9 °C, in January 2019
- Coldest month: 8.1 °C, in July 1977
- Wettest month: 233 mm, in March 1956
- Hottest day: 47.7 °C, on 17 January 2019
- Coldest day: −6.1 °C, on 10 July 1967
- Heaviest rain in one day: 140.2 mm, on 26 January 1885
1.7 °C separate the warmest year of the series from the coldest. Between the hottest and the coldest day on record, the range reaches 53.8 °C.
Temperature trend over 1961–2020
The regression line of annual mean temperature changes by +0.55 °C per decade between 1961 and 2020, about +3.2 °C over the whole period. That is faster than the median of the 227 stations (+0.19 °C per decade), by 0.36 °C per decade: the station ranks 1 out of 227.
Data source and licence
Data source: Bureau of Meteorology (ACORN-SAT) and NOAA NCEI (GHCN-Daily) (dataset “ACORN-SAT v2 daily (homogenised) + GHCN-Daily”), licence CC BY 4.0; Public domain (NOAA NCEI). Last updated: 29 October 2026.
The data for Lake Cargelligo Airport are shown as the source publishes them; this site does not correct them. A year is kept only if at least eleven months of measurements are available, and a normal is computed only with at least twenty years of data out of its thirty. Temperatures are rounded to 0.1 °C and rainfall to the millimetre. The station is one of 227 stations in Australia: the overview page lets you compare them.
Frequently asked questions
What is the annual mean temperature at Lake Cargelligo Airport?
Over 1991–2020, the annual mean temperature at Lake Cargelligo Airport is 18.2 °C.
What is the warmest year ever measured at Lake Cargelligo Airport?
Since records began in 1882, the warmest year at Lake Cargelligo Airport is 2002, at 18.7 °C on average. The coldest is 2000 (17.0 °C).
Is the climate at Lake Cargelligo Airport getting warmer?
Yes: at Lake Cargelligo Airport, the annual mean temperature rises by 0.55 °C per decade between 1961 and 2020, +3.2 °C in total. 7 of the 10 warmest years in the series fall after 1999.
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