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
Thunderstorm outbreak across northern and eastern Australia
- Warm conditions and tropical moisture advected by low pressure troughs resulted in thunderstorms and showers across northern and eastern parts of the country.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 10 to 50 mm were recorded in northern parts of Western Australia and the Northern Territory, regions of northern, central and southern Queensland and pockets of north-eastern New South Wales, with locally higher totals above 50 mm.
- Several cold fronts and associated low pressure troughs brought light to moderate rainfall to parts of southern Australia during the week.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 10 to 25 mm were recorded in parts of south-west Western Australia, eastern Victoria and northern Tasmania. Much of western Tasmania had weekly totals greater than 25 mm with totals greater than 50 mm in some isolated pockets.
- The highest weekly total (at a Bureau gauge) was 120.0 mm at Copperlode Dam Alert in Queensland.
- The highest daily total (at a Bureau gauge) was 108.0 mm at Robinhood Station in the Queensland in the 24 hours to 9 am on 15 October.
Product code: IDCKGRWAR0
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