Rainfall update
Recent rainfall station totals
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About these data, maps and tables
- Maps and tables use real-time rainfall data, and limited quality control has been performed
- Some stations occasionally report multi-day accumulations, which may show up as high daily, weekly or month-to-date totals.
- Daily data are updated at and available around .
- Weekly data are updated at AEDT each day and available around .
- Monthly data are published around on the last day each month, then updated after midnight on the 2nd, 3rd and 22nd of the following month.
- Month periods use monthly totals, and have additional information, including 'Years of data', 'Mean' and 'Percentile' rainfall for the selected period. Percentiles are calculated for stations with at least 20 years of data; newer stations show N/A in map popups and -1.00 in the table view. Percentiles are expressed as a number out of 100. The percentile refers to the ranking of a particular value relative to all of the values for that site.
- Elevation is listed as -999 in the table when not available
- In the tables, select Station number to open rainfall table, or elsewhere in row to show on map
- Popups from the map, and Station numbers in the table, link to more rainfall information. In the tables, periods with daily data link to the latest year of daily rainfall values, and month periods link to the full station history of monthly data.
- More about rainfall data
Weekly highlights
Cold fronts bring widespread rainfall across Tasmania
- Cold fronts and associated low pressure troughs led to widespread showers and storms, some severe, across Tasmania and parts of the southern mainland.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 10 to 100 mm, with locally higher totals up to 200 mm, were recorded across Tasmania, south-western regions of Victoria, including alpine and Gippsland regions, south-eastern and south-western South Australia, southern alpine areas of New South Wales and an isolated area in the Eucla region of Western Australia.
- Isolated thunderstorms and showers impacted parts of northern Australia, delivering light to moderate rainfall to parts of the Kimberley, Cape York Peninsula, and the Top End.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 10 to 50 mm, with locally higher totals up to 100 mm, were recorded across parts of the Kimberley, Cape York Peninsula and the Top End.
- A cloud band associated with low pressure troughs across inland South Australia, southern Queensland, and northern New South Wales brought showers and isolated thunderstorms, some severe, to parts of central and eastern Australia.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 10 to 50 mm were recorded across isolated parts of the southern regions of the Northern Territory, inland Southern Australia, inland and south-eastern Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales.
- The highest weekly total (at a Bureau gauge) was 181.8 mm at Mount Read in Tasmania.
- The highest daily total (at a Bureau gauge) was 95.2 mm at Old Delamere in the Northern Territory in the 24 hours to 9 am on 12 October.
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