A single wet season with no false starts
At the station the year has one wet season and one dry one with no false starts between them. Each month from March to August is wetter than the one before, and each month from September to February is drier, so the 706 mm of an average year arrives as one long swell centred on late winter.
January and February share the station's warmest days at 22.8°C, and no month is hot. July's nights, the coolest of the year, average 7.0°C, and the coolest stretch, June to August, is a long, level plateau rather than a sharp dip. The nights keep step with the days: January's and February's are the warmest, February's averaging 14.4°C.
Spring's middle month, October
Spring at the station is the wetter season, with 180 mm against autumn's 155 mm, and September, still carrying the winter rain, is wetter than any autumn month. October sits squarely in the middle, its days averaging 18.3°C, the same as spring as a whole. Autumn starts from March, among the driest months, before May brings the rain back in earnest.
Pests and weather, from public sources
Termites
New colonies begin when winged termites leave the nest in a colonising flight. The Australian Museum says these flights happen in warm, humid weather, mostly in spring and autumn.
Australian MuseumCockroaches
The Better Health Channel says cockroaches do best where conditions are warm, humid and unhygienic.
Better Health Channel (Victorian Government)Mosquitoes
“Mosquitoes need water to breed, and some mosquitoes can breed in very small amounts of water.”
NSW HealthTicks
Ticks can be found in any month. The Australian Government’s health advice puts the usual tick season at July to December, and says it differs from place to place.
Australian Centre for Disease ControlWho licenses pest work in Victoria
In Victoria, the Department of Health is the body that licenses and regulates pest control operators, under the Public Health and Wellbeing Act 2008 (section 101). Department of Health, Victoria
The department’s guidelines say that Act requires each pest control operator to hold a licence, except where a pesticide is used for certain specified purposes carrying no significant risk to public health. Department of Health, Victoria
About pest control licences in Victoria, Department of Health