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Townsville Climate
- Yearly monsoonal rains of varying strengths, with infrequent unreliable rain from storms in the summer
- Little to no rain remainder of the year
- Savannah type landscape. Grasslands with gums and acacia, though some suburbs are built on former mashes and wetlands
- Tropical humidity & heat in summer
- Mild winters, often not cold enough for cool flowering trees and shrubs
Townsville will get most of it's annual rain over three months, and usually in one large weather system such as a cyclone or rain bands. For the remainder of the year it's dry and arid and humidity drops after the summer months have passed. It could be said that Townsville climate is a mixture of the arid drylands and tropical landscapes. Techniques that apply to both these areas apply to Townsville. Use of a mixuture will benefit your garden.
- Water runoff collection and storage in tanks and in the ground using swales - being mindful of waterlogging in the heavier soil areas
- Selection of trees that don't require cold periods to flower, can tolerate extended dry times as well as high humidity in the wet
- Selection of smaller plants that can tolerate, or prefer high humidity in summer, and irrigated throughout the dry period
- Mulching and covering of soil when evaporation exceeds rainfall which is most of the year in Townsville
