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 brought severe storms and scattered rainfall to Tasmania
- Cold fronts and associated low-pressure troughs brought scattered showers and thunderstorms, some severe, across Tasmania and isolated showers to parts of southern Australia.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 25 to 100 mm were recorded over most of western Tasmania and an isolated pocket in the north-east.
- Moist, onshore flow brought showers to parts of eastern coastal regions.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 50 to 150 mm were recorded across pockets of Queensland and New South Wales coasts.
- Scattered showers and thunderstorms impacted northern Australia with tropical low 33U forming to the north of the Gulf of Carpentaria.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 50 to 200 mm were recorded in the north of Cape York Peninsula.
- Much of Australia did not record any rain during the week as high-pressure systems continued the settled weather conditions this week.
- The highest weekly total (at a Bureau gauge) was 157.6 mm at Horn Island in Queensland, which included the highest daily total (at a Bureau gauge) of 91.2 mm in the 24 hours to 9 am on 8 May.
Product code: IDCKGRWAR0
History
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