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 in western Tasmania
- At the beginning of the week, a low pressure trough near the east coast resulted in showers for parts of Queensland and eastern New South Wales.
- A series of low pressure troughs and cold fronts brought showers to southern Australia during the week, mostly to Tasmania, but also to southern parts of Western Australia and Victoria, and south-eastern New South Wales.
- Onshore airflow resulted in light showers along the north-eastern Queensland coast.
- Weekly totals between 10 and 50 mm were recorded across much of Tasmania, parts of eastern and northern Queensland, isolated areas in southern and north-eastern Victoria, and along the coast of New South Wales.
- Weekly totals exceeding 50 mm were recorded across most of western Tasmania, where an area in the central west recorded more than 100 mm.
- Most of Australia received little or no rainfall during the week.
- The highest weekly total (at the Bureau gauge) was 169.6 mm at Mount Read in Tasmania, and the highest daily total was 59.0 mm at Wilsons Promontory Lighthouse (VIC) in the 24 hours to 9 am on 25 September.
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History
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