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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

Extensive rain in southern and interior regions from a cold front

  • During the week, a cold front and complex low pressure system crossed southern Australia and linked up with a cloudband containing moist tropical air, bringing widespread rain, with storms, to the south coast of mainland Australia, western Tasmania, and parts of the interior.
  • Weekly rainfall totals of 25 to 100 mm, locally higher, were recorded along the south coast of Western Australia, the Agricultural districts of South Australia, western and northern Tasmania, and western, central and alpine regions of Victoria.
  • Weekly rainfall totals of 10 to 50 mm were recorded in parts of the interior, exceeding monthly averages, including a band in central New Wales, western Queensland, northern South Australia and the south of the Northern Territory.
  • Coastal showers brought weekly rainfall totals of 25 to 50 mm, locally higher, for parts of the New South Wales north-east and the Queensland North Tropical Coast.
  • Unseasonable showers resulted in weekly rainfall of 10 to 25 mm in the Top End of the Northern Territory around Darwin.
  • The highest weekly total (at a Bureau gauge) of 154.0 mm was recorded at Parawa (South Australia).
  • The highest daily total (at a Bureau gauge) of 104.0 mm was recorded at Promised Land (Bellingen (Crystal Creek)) (New South Wales) in the 24 hours to 9 am on 16 June 2026.
Map of rainfall totals for this week

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