With most people in the district, especially farmers, hoping for a break in the unusually dry conditions February proved another disappointment.

It made it seven months in a row that monthly rainfall totals fell short of their averages over the past 115 years.
Warragul received just 41.6 millimetres, rain was recorded on only six days with two of those days hardly registering - less than one millimetre.
At the Bureau of Meteorology's weather station at Nilma North 32.4 millimetres was recorded in February; almost two-thirds of that -20 millimetres - coming on two successive days mid-month. The month's average is 54.8 millimetres, historically the driest month of the year.
For the summer months - December, January and February - Nilma North received just 60.4 millimetres of rain, Warragul 100 millimetres.
The all years' average for that period is 154.4 millimetres.
The "long dry" also has increased the danger of bushfires.
The National Council for Fire and Emergency Services said the higher risk extended across most of southern Australia during autumn, from West Australia to the West, Central and South Gippsland regions.
And it also is predicting temperatures will be above normal.
The weather also got a bit warmer last month.
The thermometer at Nilma North reached 30 degrees on seven days with a top maximum of 38.1 degrees on February 16, immediately following the two wettest days.
District farmers had coped reasonably well but are now looking towards the sky hoping to spot some solid rain clouds that could green the brown pastures and replenish dams.