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
Northern wet-season build-up continues with showers and thunderstorms over northern and inland Australia
- Throughout the week, troughs interacting with tropical moisture produced widespread showers and thunderstorms over northern and inland Australia. Weekly rainfall totals of 10 mm to more than 50 mm were recorded from the far north of Western Australia, across much of the Northern Territory and adjacent areas of northern South Australia, much of Queensland and parts of north-eastern New South Wales. Weekly totals above 100 mm were recorded in central Queensland.
- Cold fronts produced light falls in parts of southern Australia. Weekly rainfall totals of 5 mm to more than 25 mm were recorded in south-west Western Australia, generally coastal South Australia, much of Victoria, parts of southern New South Wales and western Tasmania.
- The highest weekly total (at a Bureau gauge) of 191.0 mm was recorded at Mt Crosby TM in Queensland.
- The highest daily total of 104.2 mm was recorded at Double Island Point Lighthouse in the 24 hours to 9 am on 29 October 2026.
Product code: IDCKGRWAR0
History
Previous rainfall reports
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