Dry months ahead

July was drier and warmer than normal across Baw Baw Shire.
And the Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting there will be more of the same over the next three months.
The bureau's official station at Nilma North registered just 27.8 millimetres in July and at Warragul where it was a bit wetter the total was 45.2 millimetres, half of the average over the past 115 years.
The rain also fell in patches.
Warragul's heaviest rain over a 24-hour period was nine millimetres; Nilma North's six.
At Warragul July's rain took the total for the first seven months of the year to 445 millimetres, 80 millimetres below average since the start of the year.
Nilma North has received almost the same - 442 millimetres - over that period.
Temperatures were mild for July, usually one of the district's coldest months, with maximum daily temperatures ranging from a high of 17 degrees to a low of 10.
Only twice did early morning temperatures drop to zero degrees.
According to the outlook issued by the BoM Victoria is "at least twice as likely to receive unusually low rainfall for the next three months" and there is a 60 to 80 per cent chance of "unusually higher maximum temperatures".