Drought in Tamworth NSW - Getting Worse? Not really

With all the climate strike going on, people are pointing at the drought in North west NSW as a reason to de-carbonise due to Climate Change. So as always, I put my devils advocate hat on, downloaded some data from the BOM from a weather station close to Tamworth and had a look.

So is the average rainfall in Tamworth worse as the climate has heated up? Not really. Been bad the last couple of years, and probably the worst drought since 1994, but overall, rainfall has actually increased since 1903

What about the number of rain free days? Actually decreasing since 1903

So this says more about preparation for drought than anything else. Maybe there should be more dams.