The Maryborough gauge has been selected to analyses the climate data of the study region given it has been operation since 1870 until 2014. Climate data has been acquired from Bureau of Meteorology website and the Queensland Government SILO website. The region experiences variance of temperature typical of the subtropics in any given month; 40.6 C was the highest temperature recorded in December 1979 and -1.4 C was the lowest temperature recorded in July 1979 as show in picture.