Rainfall Update

Cold fronts brought moderate rainfall to southern Australia

• Cold fronts and associated troughs led to scattered rainfall and storms, some severe, across south-western Western Australia, southern regions of South Australia, eastern New South Wales and much of Victoria and Tasmania.
• Weekly rainfall totals of 10 to 50 mm were recorded across south-west Western Australia, south-eastern parts of South Australia, much of Victoria and northern and western Tasmania.
• Offshore coastal troughs led to showers and storms across parts the Queensland and New South Wales coasts.
• Weekly rainfall totals of 5 to 25 mm, with locally higher totals to 100 mm, were recorded across isolated parts of north tropical Queensland coast and coastal New South Wales.
• The highest weekly total (at a Bureau gauge) was 103.0 mm at Cronulla South Bowling Club in New South Wales, which included the highest daily total of 58.0 mm in the 24 hours to 9 am on 15 August.