Thursday, 2 June 2022 - Seasonal Climate Summary for Greater Brisbane - Product code IDCKGC24L0
Greater Brisbane in autumn 2022: Very high rainfall and above average minimum temperatures
Rainfall was very much above average across Greater Brisbane with some locations recording more than twice their average for autumn. Nights were much warmer than average across the region with some locations having warmest autumn nights on record. Daytime temperatures closer to average at most locations.
More than twice the average autumn rainfall at some locations
- Autumn rainfall was very much above average with some sites in Greater Brisbane reporting more than twice the long-term average for the season.
- Above average rainfall in March and in May resulted in some sites having their highest total autumn rainfall on record or their highest total autumn rainfall for at least 20 years.
- Heavy rainfall at the end of March and in mid-May saw some sites had their highest autumn daily rainfall on record.
- The wettest site in the Greater Brisbane area during autumn was at Mt Tamborine Fern St with a rainfall total of 1124.7 mm.
Warmer than average nights; Mild daytime temperatures
- Daytime temperatures were generally close to average overall at sites around Greater Brisbane, ranging from 0.5 °C below average at Point Lookout to 0.7 °C above average at Cape Moreton Lighthouse.
- Minimum temperatures were above average across Greater Brisbane, owing to particularly warmer than average nights in April and in May, and ranged from 0.6 °C above average at Point Lookout to 2.3 °C above average at Beaudesert Drumley Street.
- With the warmer than average nights throughout the season, saw some sites have their highest autumn mean daily minimum temperature on record or their highest autumn mean daily minimum temperature for at least 20 years.
Brisbane
- Total rainfall for Brisbane was 594.2 mm, which is 218% of the long-term average of 272.3 mm
- The mean daily maximum temperature for Brisbane was 26.6 °C, which is 0.3 °C below the long-term average of 26.9 °C
- The warmest day was 34.7 °C on 9 March, and the coolest day was on 21 May when the temperature reached 18.2 °C
- The mean daily minimum temperature for Brisbane was 18.4 °C, which is 1.3 °C above the long-term average of 17.1 °C
- The coldest morning was 11.2 °C on 29 May, and the warmest morning was on 10 March when the minimum temperature was 23.3 °C
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Extremes Maps Records Summaries Important notes the top
Extremes in autumn 2022 | |
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Hottest day |
35.1 °C at Beerburrum Forest Station on 8 Mar 35.1 °C at Greenbank (Defence) on 9 Mar |
Warmest days on average | 27.0 °C at Amberley AMO |
Coolest days on average | 24.8 °C at Cape Moreton Lighthouse |
Coldest day | 16.8 °C at Canungra (Defence) on 30 May |
Coldest night | 7.9 °C at Amberley AMO on 29 May |
Coolest nights on average | 15.1 °C at Canungra (Defence) |
Warmest nights on average |
20.0 °C at Cape Moreton Lighthouse 20.0 °C at Point Lookout |
Warmest night | 25.5 °C at Point Lookout on 9 Mar |
Warmest on average overall | 22.9 °C at Point Lookout |
Coolest on average overall | 20.4 °C at Canungra (Defence) |
Wettest overall | 1124.7 mm at Mt Tamborine Fern St |
Wettest day | 239.6 mm at Point Lookout on 29 Mar |
Strongest wind gust | 91 km/h at Banana Bank North Beacon on 28 Mar |
Extremes Maps Records Summaries Important notes the top
Record highest autumn daily rainfall | ||||||
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New record (mm) |
Old record |
Years of record |
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Mt Alford | 142.2 | on 13 May | 128.3 | on 16 Mar 1937 | 84 | |
Carneys Creek The Ranch | 186.0 | on 13 May | 141.0 | on 31 Mar 2017 | 50 | |
Point Lookout | 239.6 | on 29 Mar | 229.2 | on 23 Mar 2021 | 26 | |
Coomera Foxwell Road | 236.0 | on 29 Mar | 166.0 | on 29 Apr 2012 | 25 |
Record highest autumn total rainfall | |||||
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New record (mm) |
Old record |
Years of record |
Average for autumn |
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Harrisville Mary Street | 476.5 | 465.2 | in 1989 | 124 | 184.5 |
Mt Alford | 512.8 | 483.4 | in 2017 | 72 | 199.8 |
Carneys Creek The Ranch | 643.0 | 578.4 | in 1983 | 44 | 252.0 |
Woodford Stanmore | 785.6 | 663.2 | in 2009 | 24 | 364.9 |
Brisbane | 594.2 | 556.4 | in 2015 | 21 | 272.3 |
Mt Tarampa | 439.8 | 321.3 | in 2021 | 21 | 169.6 |
Highest autumn total rainfall for at least 20 years | |||||
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Observed (mm) |
Most recent higher |
Average for autumn |
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Lindfield | 575.6 | 779.8 | in 1989 | 296.2 | |
Blackbutt Post Office | 363.0 | 423.2 | in 1990* | 205.1 | |
Esk Post Office | 477.7 | 614.7 | in 1989* | 222.2 | |
Peachester | 914.3 | 1752.4 | in 1989* | 513.1 | |
Coominya Post Office | 450.0 | 589.4 | in 1989* | 195.3 | |
Amberley AMO | 456.4 | 498.0 | in 1996 | 196.0 | |
Greenbank Thompson Road | 525.2 | 579.2 | in 1996 | 270.4 | |
Wivenhoe Dam | 399.4 | 441.6 | in 1996 | 162.7 | |
Mt Tamborine Fern St | 1124.7 | 1290.2 | in 1996* | 450.4 | |
Lowood Don St | 419.3 | 485.2 | in 1996* | 197.4 | |
Gatton Allan Street | 415.4 | 529.0 | in 1996* | 177.7 |
* note: there are gaps in the historical record at this site, so it is possible a higher value has gone unreported
Record highest autumn mean daily minimum temperature | |||||
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New record (°C) |
Old record |
Years of record |
Average for autumn |
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Logan City Water Treatment Plant | 18.0 | 17.2 | in 2014 | 29 | 16.0 |
Brisbane Aero | 18.1 | 17.4 | in 2016 | 26 | 16.4 |
Beerburrum Forest Station | 17.5 | 16.5 | in 2000 | 23 | 15.7 |
Brisbane | 18.4 | 18.1 | in 2016 | 22 | 17.1 |
Highest autumn mean daily minimum temperature for at least 20 years | |||||
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Observed (°C) |
Most recent higher |
Average for autumn |
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Amberley AMO | 16.0 | 16.5 | in 1989 | 13.9 | |
Archerfield Airport | 17.2 | 17.6 | in 1989 | 15.2 |
Extremes Maps Records Summaries Important notes the top
Summary statistics for autumn 2022 | ||||||||||||
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Maximum temperatures (°C) |
Minimum temperatures (°C) |
Rainfall (millimetres) |
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Mean for autumn 2022 |
Diff from average |
Highest for autumn 2022 |
Mean for autumn 2022 |
Diff from average |
Lowest for autumn 2022 |
Total for autumn 2022 |
Average for autumn |
Rank of autumn 2022 |
Fraction of autumn average |
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Amberley AMO | 27.0 | +0.1 | 34.4 | 8 Mar | 16.0 | +2.1 | 7.9 | 29 May | 456.4 | 196.0 | v high | 233% |
Archerfield Airport | 26.7 | +0.2 | 34.1 | 8 Mar | 17.2 | +2.0 | 10.9 | 30 May | 469.4 | 279.1 | high | 168% |
Beaudesert Drumley Street | 26.5 | -0.3 | 34.0 | 8 Mar | 16.1 | +2.3 | 8.9 | 30 May | 535.4 | 249.3 | v high | 215% |
Beerburrum Forest Station | 26.0 | -0.4 | 35.1 | 8 Mar | 17.5 | +1.8 | 12.1 | 29 May | 513.6 | 410.2 | high | 125% |
Brisbane | 26.6 | -0.3 | 34.7 | 9 Mar | 18.4 | +1.3 | 11.2 | 29 May | 594.2 | 272.3 | highest | 218% |
Brisbane Aero | 25.9 | 0.0 | 34.6 | 9 Mar | 18.1 | +1.7 | 11.7 | 29 May | 418.8 | 288.5 | high | 145% |
Canungra (Defence) | 25.7 | 34.5 | 9 Mar | 15.1 | 8.0 | 30 May | 833.8 | |||||
Cape Moreton Lighthouse | 24.8 | +0.7 | 29.9 | 8 Mar | 20.0 | +1.0 | 14.9 | 30 May | 558.0 | 485.1 | high | 115% |
Greenbank (Defence) | 26.5 | 35.1 | 9 Mar | 16.2 | 9.3 | 29 May | 543.4 | |||||
Logan City Water Treatment Plant | 26.4 | +0.1 | 34.5 | 9 Mar | 18.0 | +2.0 | 11.9 | 29 May | ||||
Point Lookout | 25.9 | -0.5 | 30.7 | 9 Mar | 20.0 | +0.6 | 14.8 | 31 May | 817.7 | 476.4 | v high | 172% |
Redcliffe | 25.7 | -0.1 | 32.7 | 9 Mar | 18.8 | +1.2 | 13.1 | 30 May | 569.2 | 319.1 | v high | 178% |
Redland (Alexandra Hills) | 25.7 | 33.4 | 9 Mar | 17.9 | 11.2 | 30 May | 567.0 |
Extremes Maps Records Summaries Important notes the top
Notes
The Seasonal climate summary, usually published in the first week of the following month, lists the main features of the weather in Greater Brisbane using the most timely and accurate information available on the date of publication; it will generally not be updated. More extensive discussion of significant weather events, along with later information and data that has had greater opportunity for quality control, will be presented in the Monthly Weather Review.
This summary includes data from observing sites in or near the Greater Brisbane “Greater Capital City Statistical Area” (GCCSA). The Australian Bureau of Statistics designed the GCCSAs to “include the population within the urban area of the city, as well as people who regularly socialise, shop or work within the city, and live in small towns and rural areas surrounding the city. It is important to note that GCCSAs do not define the built up edge of the city. They provide a stable definition for these cities and are designed for the output of a range of social and economic survey data.”
This statement has been prepared based on information available at 1 pm on Thursday 2 June 2022. Some checks have been made on the data, but it is possible that results will change as new information becomes available.
In some situations, some or all of the rainfall is in the form of hail or snow. In these cases the totals given are for the water equivalent: the depth of liquid water that results from melting any frozen precipitation. There can be significant 'undercatch' of snow in strong winds, meaning the true precipitation can be higher than that reported.
Averages for individual sites are long-term means based on observations from
all available years of record, which vary widely from site to site.
They are not shown for sites with less than 10 years of record, as they cannot then be calculated reliably.
The median
is sometimes more representative than the
mean
of long-term average rain.
The Rank indicates how rainfall this time compares with the climate record for the site,
based on the
decile ranking
(very low rainfall is in decile 1, low in decile 2 or 3,
average in decile 4 to 7, high in decile 8 or 9
and very high is in decile 10).
The Fraction of average shows how much rain has fallen this time as a
percentage of the long-term mean.
Where temperature area averages are mentioned, they are derived from the ACORN-SAT dataset.
Information about Australian Indigenous seasonal calendars is available at the Indigenous Weather Knowledge website.
Further information
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