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Rainfall update

Some data might not be available due to a Bureau-wide network outage. Data is in the process of being recovered.

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

Cold fronts brought showers to parts of southern Australia

  • A cold front and associated trough brought scattered rain and showers to parts of the south-east on the 15th. Later in the week, another cold front brought showers to the south-west on the 18th and to the south-east on 19th and 20th.
  • Weekly rainfall totals of 10 to 100 mm were recorded across much of western Tasmania and parts Victoria and the south-west of Western Australia.
  • Moist onshore winds earlier in the week brought scattered showers to parts of the north-eastern coast of Queensland.
  • Weekly rainfall totals of 10 to 50 mm were recorded across coastal parts of northern tropical coast Queensland.
  • Isolated storms and showers from a surface trough impacted inland regions of Western Australia on the 14th and 15th.
  • Weekly rainfall totals of 10 to 25 mm were recorded across parts of the Goldfields and Interior regions of Western Australia.
  • The highest weekly total (at a Bureau gauge) was 87.6 mm at Mount Read in Tasmania.
  • The highest daily total (at a Bureau gauge) was 29.6 mm at Paynedale Alert in Western Australia in the 24 hours to 9 am on 19 September.
Map of rainfall totals for this week

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