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
High rainfall totals across north-western and eastern Australia
- Cold fronts and associated troughs during the week brought widespread showers and scattered storms, some severe, to the New South Wales and Queensland coasts, eastern Victoria, Tasmania, and southern parts of Western Australia.
- Persistent low-pressure troughs through the interior, eastern states and Western Australia triggered storms and scattered rainfall in these regions.
- Weekly rainfall totals greater than 25 mm were recorded across northern and western parts of the Northern Territory, northern and eastern Queensland, eastern New South Wales, Victoria, north-eastern Tasmania, and northern and isolated pockets of southern Western Australia.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 50 to 100 mm were recorded across isolated areas of northern Western Australia, northern and central parts of the Northern Territory, northern and eastern regions of Queensland, eastern New South Wales and in north-eastern Victoria and Tasmania.
- Weekly rainfall totals greater than 100 mm were recorded in isolated parts of Queensland's north and south-east, along the New South Wales coast, north-eastern Tasmania, and in northern Western Australia and Northern Territory.
- The highest weekly total (at a Bureau gauge) was 317.4 mm at Careys Peak (Barrington Tops) in New South Wales.
- The highest daily total (at a Bureau gauge) was 195.0 mm at Tully Sugar Mill in Queensland in the 24 hours to 9 am on 7 January.
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History
Previous rainfall reports
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