Table 3 Table showing autumn (MAM) monthly maximum weekly Murrumbidgee River heights at Hay (southern MDB) that exceed flood level (6.7 m), and seasonal count in the 126 years 1874–2019.

From: From the 1990s climate change has decreased cool season catchment precipitation reducing river heights in Australia’s southern Murray-Darling Basin

Year

Mar

Apr

May

MAM count

1888

 

6.8

 

1

1894

 

7.32

8.02

2

1950

 

8.5

7.04

2

1956

 

6.89

8.23

2

1974

  

6.85

1

1989

 

8.41

7.93

2

2012

8.6

  

1

  1. Note the last April–May flood exceedance height in 1989 and one in March.
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