Apart from scattered coastal areas and the extreme southwest, July was exceptionally dry: Ouyen did not receive any rain in June or July Green, H.J. and Watt, William Shand; Results of rainfall observations made in Victoria: supplementary volume: including all available annual rainfall totals from 1326 stations for years 1911–1936 inclusive, and monthly and yearly totals from 239 representative stations for the entire periods for which records are available up to the end of 1935; published 1937 by Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology and Adelaide's rainfall for the period of only 32 mm was less than in the disastrous year of 1982.