August 5, 2025

Whether this season ends up in the grain record books or just fades as another patchy year, one thing is guaranteed: somewhere in the Wheatbelt, rainfall will slump into the bottom 10% of the long-term average. DPIRD’s own numbers show decile 1 years strike the Eastern Wheatbelt more often than many realise. Yilgarn is the poster child—bottom-decile rainfall in 2002, 2006, 2010, 2019, and again in 2023. A pattern like that gets the climate catastrophists