A dry spring helped restrict Kyabram’s yearly total to 293mm for 2025. The average is 450mm.
Only two months — June with 58mm and July with 50mm — produced totals of 50mm or more.
Kyabram’s driest months were February with just 1.6mm and May with 4mm.
Only twice for the year did 24-hour rainfall surpass 20mm — December 22 with 25mm and March 21 with 23mm.
Kyabram received no rain in the first four days of 2026.
Maximum temperatures of 40 degrees plus last year were registered on November 18 with 42.3°C, January 27 with 41.8°C and January 21 with 41.1°C.
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Believe it or not, you can read the below.
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Hefty bills for pets
Vet bills for pets can be hefty, as latest data has revealed.
Pet insurance provider Petsy has revealed some Australian pet owners faced vet bills of more than $56,000 in 2025, raising the question: could your household really afford a major pet emergency out of pocket?
The data reveals the top dog and cat claims for 2025 and found that among the most serious cases, dog owners were hit with vet invoices averaging nearly $20,000, while the biggest cat cases averaged around $11,000 in treatment costs.
The findings are revealed at a time when animal-health industry research shows 73 per cent of Australian households (around 7.7 million homes) now have at least one pet.
This means Australians collectively own an estimated 31.6 million pets nationwide, and dogs are in almost half of all households and cats in more than a third.
Yet studies suggest well under a quarter of Australia’s dogs and cats are insured, and some estimates put pet insurance coverage at as low as one in 10 pets overall.
Racing is off again
For the second year running, the famous Echuca-Moama Southern 80 ski race won’t be happening.
Organisers are still waiting on Maritime NSW to release a review of the sport.
Many changes are expected to be implemented from the review, and due to the time factor for this to happen organisers have had to pull the pin on this year’s event.
Algae found
The Mooroopna lake and Lake Bartlett at Tatura have been both hit with high levels of blue-green algae.
Both lakes are being monitored by Greater Shepparton City Council, which is warning the public to avoid contact with both waterways.
Pacing spill
Three drivers were involved in a spill at the Kyabram Trotting Club trials last Sunday morning but luckily escaped serious injury along with their horses.
The prompt action from ambulance and police won praise from the club.
Noel Tyndall, Corey O'Donoghue and Casey Leijen were the drivers involved.
Leijen was taken to the Goulburn Valley Hospital with a cracked rib, abrasions and back and hip soreness and was detained overnight.
Tyndall and O'Donoghue drove in a later trial.
Did you know?
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
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Coca-Cola was originally green.
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It is impossible to lick your elbow.
Square dinkum
G’day.
To mark the start of the new year, I’m going to open a gym called ‘New Resolutions’.
It will have brand new, state-of-the-art exercise equipment for the first three or four weeks ... then it will turn into a pub for the rest of the year.
Hooroo!
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