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
Moderate to high rainfall totals in the Tropical North
- During the week, moist onshore easterly flow brought several days of rainfall to Queensland's North Tropical Coast, while isolated showers and thunderstorms impacted parts of the Top End of the Northern Territory.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 25 to 100 mm were recorded across the Top End of the Northern Territory and northern and central parts of Queensland. Falls greater than 100 mm were recorded across coastal areas of Queensland's North Tropical Coast and Tablelands, and in the Herbert and Lower Burdekin districts.
- A series of troughs and cold fronts moved across some areas of south-eastern and eastern Australia during the week and brought light to moderate rainfall totals.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 5 to 25 mm were recorded across parts of southern South Australia and south-western Victoria, western Tasmania, coastal areas of New South Wales and parts of south-eastern Queensland.
- A low pressure trough moved across southern and central parts of Western Australia for several days this week, generating showers with thunderstorms, some severe, with heavy rainfall.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 10 to 50 mm were recorded across southern and central parts of Western Australia, with isolated falls of 50 to 100 mm in an area of the Goldfields district.
- The highest weekly total (at a Bureau gauge) was 231.0 mm at Topaz Alert in Queensland.
- The highest daily total (at a Bureau gauge) was 108.8 mm at Cape Flattery in Queensland in the 24 hours to 9 am on 1 April.
Product code: IDCKGRWAR0
History
Previous rainfall reports
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