THE Border region has experienced its lowest annual rainfall since the height of the millenium drought in 2006.
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Many towns on both sides of the border have recorded yearly totals lower than the 2018 totals including Albury with 411.4mm falling in 2019 compared to 421.8mm the previous year.
Albury's had its lowest monthly rainfall total in December with only 12.4mm falling.
But the 2019 total still exceeds the 296.6mm which fell in 2006.
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Corowa had four months of single digit rainfall in 2019 on its way to a yearly tally of 328.8mm which was slightly down on the 338.3mm which fell in 2018.
April produced the lowest monthly total of just 4.22m with 8.8mm being recorded in both October and December.
Corowa's 2006 total was 250.4mm.
Further west to Deniliquin its 2019 total of 228.4mm exceeded the 2018 total of 176mm even though it had five months of less than 10mm of rain.
The lowest monthly fall was 3mm last January and in 2018 there were also five single digit monthly totals including a run of 0.2mm, 2.8mm and 1.8mm totals from February to April.
Yarrawonga's yearly total for 2019 of 256.2mm was less than the 336.2mm which fell in 2018 with a particularly dry start to the year with three of the first four months, January, March and April, recording below 10mm.
Wangaratta had a lower yearly rainfall than Albury with 343.4mm.
Corryong, which is experiencing serious bushfires, had 553.4mm up until December with the high country coming off a dry spring by its standards with a three-month total of 92.4mm.
By comparison the Upper Murray's 2006 spring rainfall was less than 50mm with the best monthly recording being March when 107.4mm fell.
The Mitta Valley has fared the best 749mm for 2019, slightly down on the 756mm which fell in the previous 12-month period.
Data supplied by the Bureau of Meteorology website.
