On Thursday 7 January 2021 the Yamba Pilot Station recorded a total of 34.4mm of rain and this was followed the next day by rainfall of 22.8mm.
Up to 11 January 2021 the pilot station recorded a total of 81.9mm of rain.
The Daily Telegraph, 11 January 2021:
Last year was a hot and wet one for the Clarence Valley, with some rainfall records broken and above average temperatures recorded.
According to the Bureau of Meteorology, Wooli Beach set a new record in total rainfall, with 2201.6mm recorded in 2020, eclipsing the previous record of 2004.8mm in 2011.
Grafton Research Station also had its wettest year since 1959, with 1600.2mm recorded.
Yamba’s Pilot Station had 1746.6mm of rainfall in 2020, which was about 20 per cent higher than the average annual rainfall total for the station.
Grafton Airport AWS had a total of 1527.8mm last year, a 33 per cent increase on the station’s rainfall average.
Meanwhile, Grafton experienced its third driest November since 1917 with just 7mm of rain recorded, immediately followed by its wettest December in 164 years of data, recording 513mm.
BOM senior climatologist Dr Lynette Bettio said for NSW, rainfall was above average for most of the state.
“That was a real contrast to what we saw in 2019 with those extreme drought conditions across the state,” she said.
“Starting to relieve some of those drought conditions we saw good rainfall at the start of the year which helped out with those winter crops but we do still need to see more rainfall in the coming months to really relieve that long-term drought that we did see in 2019 but it was a good start…..
