Rainfall Update

High rainfall totals across northern and eastern Australia

• Early in the week, severe thunderstorms and locally heavy rainfall were triggered by persistent low-pressure troughs extending from the north of Western Australia, through the interior into south-eastern Australia, before moving eastward over Queensland and New South Wales, leading to minor and moderate flood warnings issued for southern Queensland and northern New South Wales.
• A deep low-pressure system with an associated cold front and low-pressure trough on 26 November brought rain and widespread storms to central, southern and south-eastern areas of the country.
• A low-pressure system and trough developed over south-eastern Australia on 29 November to 1 December bringing widespread rainfall and heavy falls across New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania, leading localised flood warnings in Tasmania.
• A cold front and low-pressure trough on 1 December moved across south-west Australia, bringing scattered rainfall and storms to Western Australia, South Australia and southern Northern Territory.
• Weekly rainfall totals greater than 25 mm were recorded for most of eastern and northern Australia and in parts of South Australia and southern Western Australia.
• Weekly rainfall totals of 50 to 100 mm were recorded in areas of north-west Western Australia, eastern and southern regions of Victoria, and large parts of the Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales and Tasmania.
• Weekly rainfall totals of more than 100 mm were recorded in parts of south-eastern and central Queensland, northern and south-eastern New South Wales, north-eastern Victoria, northern Tasmania and the Top End of the Northern Territory.
• The highest weekly total (at a Bureau gauge) was 316.0 mm at Springbrook Road in Queensland, which included the highest daily total rainfall of 227.0 mm in 24 hours to 9 am on 1 December.