Soil Dryness and Drought Factor Table
Soil Dryness Index (SDI) and Drought Factor (DF) observations from weather stations across Tasmania.
(Updates around 10am daily)
***** SOIL DRYNESS INDEX ***** for 9am 26 / 07 / 2025 * Issued by the Bureau of Meteorology, Hobart * Station Rain SDI Forest to 9am mm DF mm ------------------------ ------ --------- ------ Avoca 4.9 90.8 7.6 Beauty Flat Rd 0.0 20.2 6.2 Bicheno 24.4 35.6 0.9 Bothwell 1.2 118.6 9.9 Bull Bay 6.5 126.4 6.3 Burnie 24.2 75.2 1.0 Bushy Park 2.2 117.1 9.6 Campbell Town 5.0 77.2 7.3 Cape Bruny 0.3 8.2 6.1 Colebrook 11.4 64.6 3.1 Devonport East 22.4 82.4 1.2 Dover 1.8 34.9 7.1 Dunalley (Stroud 10.0 105.9 3.9 Eddystone Pt 15.4 100.7 2.1 Erriba 46.2 0.0 0.2 Fingal 5.6 63.4 6.6 Flinders Is Apt 10.4 68.7 3.5 Friendly Beach 21.0 47.9 1.2 Geeveston 6.2 25.5 5.0 Gladstone 16.5 96.9 1.9 Gray (Dalmayne R 0.4 22.0 6.3 Hamilton 0.5 121.1 9.6 Hartz Mtn 1.8 0.5 3.1 Hastings Chalet 3.0 8.3 6.0 Hobart Apt 6.0 135.9 6.8 Hobart City 7.8 100.1 5.2 Huonville 10.5 39.7 3.1 Judbury 4.4 74.4 7.9 Kennaook/Cape Gr 13.5 0.0 0.3 King Is Ap 18.6 10.1 0.7 Lake Leake 12.0 39.0 2.6 Lake St Clair 22.5 0.0 0.7 Launceston Apt 13.6 51.5 2.3 Launceston Apt 11.0 50.2 3.1 Launceston City 11.0 60.9 3.2 Lewis Hill 16.6 37.0 1.6 Liawenee A.W.S. 14.6 0.0 1.3 Llewellyn 8.2 69.1 4.7 Low Head 21.8 44.8 1.1 Low Rocky Pt 0.2 5.1 4.5 Luncheon Hill 13.4 0.0 1.4 Maatsuyker Is 0.4 5.5 5.7 Marrawah 15.0 0.0 0.3 Mathinna 23.1 0.0 0.6 Maydena 4.4 16.8 5.8 Meander 13.6 0.0 1.4 Melton Mowbray 7.0 98.3 5.8 Moogara 3.0 43.9 7.6 Mt Lloyd 3.0 39.8 7.4 Mt Read 2.0 0.0 1.6 Mt Wellington 7.4 0.0 3.0 New Norfolk 7.2 111.5 5.7 Nugent 10.6 42.3 3.1 Oatlands 9.2 89.4 4.2 Orford 7.4 116.6 5.6 Ouse 0.6 110.0 9.4 Palmers L/Out 2.9 7.0 6.0 Pioneer 12.0 18.8 2.2 Poatina 18.0 0.0 0.9 Port Davey 0.8 5.3 3.1 Pyengana 55.4 0.0 0.2 Rosebery 2.6 1.6 1.8 Ross 5.0 76.3 7.3 Savage River 8.0 0.0 1.9 Scotts Peak 0.4 3.1 4.3 Scottsdale 29.8 0.0 0.4 Sheffield 32.8 0.0 0.4 Smithton 18.6 43.1 0.5 St Marys 34.9 6.0 0.4 Strahan Town 1.6 2.6 4.6 Strathgordon 3.0 1.3 1.5 Swansea 20.0 30.6 1.2 Tarraleah Vill 2.8 0.8 3.6 Tea Tree 8.6 84.1 4.6 Temma 18.0 0.0 0.2 Tooms Lake 17.4 32.1 1.5 Tunnack 10.0 65.8 3.7 Upper Esk 10.0 0.0 2.1 Victoria Valley 9.9 14.6 2.7 Waratah 30.0 0.0 0.1 Warra 3.8 1.9 2.7 Westbury 12.5 39.5 2.5 Wynyard 25.4 5.1 0.6 Zeehan 4.4 0.0 1.4