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 along the central coast of New South Wales
- High pressure systems to the south of Australia brought settled conditions with little rain across most of the country, while south-easterly airflow resulted in scattered showers along the east coast early in the week.
- A low pressure system off the east coast brought showers and rain over large areas of eastern Australia between the 15th and 17th, followed by a low pressure trough off the New South Wales coast on the 18th, which brought heavy rainfall in the Hunter and Sydney Metro districts. Isolated pockets in south-eastern Queensland and along parts of the New South Wales coast recorded more than 50 mm for the week, and coastal areas of Hunter and Sydney Metro districts recorded more than 100 mm.
- A strong cold front crossed south-eastern Australia on the 16th and 17th bringing rain and showers, with weekly totals up to 25 mm in western Tasmania but mostly less than 10 mm in South Australia and Victoria.
- The highest daily total (at a Bureau gauge) was 126.0 mm at Morriset (Balcolin Bay St) (NSW) in the 24 hours to 9 am on 19 May and the highest weekly total (at a Bureau gauge) was 178.0 mm at Swansea (Catherine St) (NSW).
Product code: IDCKGRWAR0
History
Previous rainfall reports
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