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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
Severe Tropical Cyclone Mitchell brought heavy rainfall to the north-west coast
- Severe Tropical Cyclone Mitchell (21U) brought widespread rain, showers and thunderstorms to large parts of north-western Australia, as the system pulled in deep tropical moisture and generated unstable air.
- As a tropical low, moist air from 21U was drawn south-eastwards across central and south-eastern Australia by inland troughs, resulting in widespread rain, showers and thunderstorms.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 50 to 150 mm, with isolated heavier falls, were recorded along Queensland's central and north tropical coasts, the Cape York Peninsula, much of the Northern Territory, and in a band stretching from the north of Western Australia, through northern parts of South Australia into central New South Wales.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 25 to 50 mm were recorded over most of the rest of northern Australia.
- A cold front and associated trough passed over Tasmania bringing light to moderate showers.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 10 to 25 mm were recorded across parts of western Tasmania.
- The highest weekly total (at a Bureau gauge) was 374.0 mm at Menavale Alert in Queensland, which included the highest daily total of 181.0 mm in the 24 hours to 9 am on 7 February.
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History
Previous rainfall reports
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