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Weekly Rainfall Update
for 7 days to 9am 22nd July 2008

Index

Commentary on Recent Rainfall

For the week ending 22nd of July, rainfall was recorded over large parts of southern and eastern Australia.

The most widespread, moderate to heavy falls for the week were recorded in southwestern WA, with falls exceeding 50 mm covering a large area. Some small areas of falls greater than 50 mm also occurred in the northwest of Tasmania, alpine regions in Victoria into NSW and in eastern Queensland, inland to the southwest fromTownsville, and also on the coast to the south of Cairns.

Falls greater than 25 mm also occurred over relatively large areas in southwestern WA, alpine areas of Victoria extending into NSW, western and northern Tasmania and in Queensland, inland from around Mackay extending north to Cairns. Light to moderate falls of typically less than 25 mm were reported along coastal regions of SA, much of Victoria, and eastern parts of Tasmania, NSW and Queensland. Little to no rainfall fell elsewhere during the week.

Weekly Rainfall Map

rainfall totals map for the 7 days ending 9 am Tuesday 15th July 2008 - click on the map for a larger version with place names - state maps for Victoria and Tasmania are derived from higher resolution analyses and may show more detail than is present on the national map

larger colour map with place names | b/w map | larger b/w map with place names
WA | NT | Qld | NSW | Vic | Tas
map information | quality control information

The Drought Statement issued on the 3rd July 2008 discusses rainfall deficits over Australia for the 4 and 13-month periods ending 30th June 2008.
The rainfall deficit maps are available for the 4 month and 13 month periods, and are currently available for standard periods.

For the period from 1st March 2008 to 22nd July 2008, much of the rainfall deficiencies remain, though they have slightly eased in alpine regions of Victoria into NSW. The worst affected areas in the central NT, southeastern WA, central SA and central Queensland have had less than 20% of the mean for autumn and the first half of winter.

For the period from 1st June 2007 to 22nd July 2008, rainfall deficiencies remain similar to the previous week. Rainfall deficient areas in southeastern SA, western Victoria and northern Tasmania have recorded 70 to 90% of the estimated long-term mean for the period, whilst northern parts of SA, southern NT and far western Queensland have recorded less than 40% of average rainfall for the period.

Please Note: The Australian Bureau of Meteorology is not responsible for drought declarations. Drought declarations are the responsibility of the State Governments, and take account of other factors in addition to recent rainfall patterns. Some links to state government departmental web sites are given below.

Table of Highest Weekly Totals

The table below lists the highest rainfall totals for each state and territory for the past week. These are based on real-time rainfall reports, and only limited quality control has been performed on the data. Rainfall district names are given in parentheses. In creating the weekly rainfall map, the automated analysis technique averages the rainfall observations onto 25 km squares. Consequently entries in the table below may be higher than the rainfall ranges shown on the map for those locations.

State Highest 2nd Highest 3rd Highest
WA Pemberton (135 mm)
(South Coast)
Dwellingup (104 mm)
(South Coast)
Karnet (104 mm)
(Central Coast)
NT Jabiru (15 mm)
(Darwin-Daly)
Cape Don (3 mm)
(Darwin-Daly)
Gove (3 mm)
(Arnhem)
SA Cape Borda (58 mm)
(Kangaroo Island)
Flinders Chase (58 mm)
(Kangaroo Island)
Meadows (48 mm)
(East Central)
Qld Daradgee (145 mm)
(Herbert)
Tully (129 mm)
(Herbert)
Nerada (126 mm)
(Herbert)
NSW/ACT Cabramurra (81 mm)
(Southwest Slopes)
Batlow (67 mm)
(Southwest Slopes)
Khancoban (54 mm)
(Southwest Slopes)
Vic Falls Creek (94 mm)
(Upper Northeast)
Whitlands (68 mm)
(Upper Northeast)
Myrhee (67 mm)
(Lower Northeast)
Tas Pipers River (66 mm)
(Northern)
Gray (66 mm)
(East Coast)
Swan Island (66 mm)
(East Coast)

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