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
Ex-Tropical Cyclone Maila brought high rainfall totals to Queensland and the Northern Territory
- Ex-Tropical Cyclone Maila, combined with moisture and a surface trough, bringing high rainfall totals along coastal northern and western Queensland, through the Top End of the Northern Territory, and into the northern Kimberley in Western Australia.
- Areas with weekly totals above 25 mm extend across much of the north of Australia, with totals above 100 mm in the north-eastern Northern Territory, and the central inland and tropical north coast regions in Queensland.
- Several cold fronts and troughs brought showers and storms to western and southern Australia during the week.
- Weekly rainfall totals above 5 mm were recorded in parts of the west of Western Australia, southern and elevated parts of Victoria, while western Tasmania had weekly totals above 25 mm.
- The highest weekly total (at a Bureau gauge) was 356.2 mm at Groote Eylandt AP (NT), which also included the highest daily total of 171.6 mm in the 24 hours to 9 am 17 April.
Product code: IDCKGRWAR0
History
Previous rainfall reports
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