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Updated rainfall posters now available

Page published: July 7, 2025 | Page reviewed: July 7, 2025
The 4 updated posters: Australia's Variable Rainfall, Queensland's Extended Wet and Dry Periods, Australia's Modelled Pasture Growth, and Australia's Variable Rainfall with Tropical cyclone tracks.

The well-known Long Paddock website posters illustrating Australia’s historical rainfall and pasture growth variability have been updated to March 2025 and are now available.

The suite of posters include Annual rainfall, Tropical Cyclone Tracks, modelled Pasture Growth and Queensland’s ‘Wet and Dry’ periods as maps for the years 1890-2025.

All posters include information about the major climate drivers in Australia, with the years being classified as El Niño, Neutral and La Niña years, and a time series showing Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) and Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO, driver of longer-term climate variability).

The updated rainfall and pasture growth posters can be viewed and downloaded from the Long Paddock Rainfall poster page, as well as a downloadable page to update existing posters. There is also a 2-page Quick-guide available to outline the main points of the posters.

Long Paddock is a Queensland Government initiative providing seasonal climate and pasture condition information to the agricultural sector through the Drought and Climate Adaptation Program.