Rainfall Update

Thunderstorms brought high rainfall totals to parts of eastern Australia

• Throughout the week, a slow-moving high-pressure system in the Tasman Sea directed humid air into low pressure troughs generating showers and thunderstorms, some severe, across parts of eastern and northern Australia.
• Weekly rainfall totals of 10 to 100 mm were recorded across most of Queensland, northern and eastern New South Wales, and areas of central and northern Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Falls greater than 100 mm were recorded in parts of central and south-eastern Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales, with totals above 200 mm in areas of Queensland's Wide Bay and Burnett and Southeast Coast districts.
• Minor to Major Flood Warnings were issued for many catchments in southern Queensland.
• Cold fronts and low pressure troughs crossed parts of southern Australia bringing widespread rainfall, showers and thunderstorms.
• Weekly rainfall totals of 10 to 100 mm were recorded in the far south-west of Western Australia, parts of southern South Australia, most of Victoria and adjacent areas of south-eastern New South Wales, and across Tasmania.
• The highest weekly total (at a Bureau gauge) was 392.6 mm at Lower Springbrook Alert in Queensland.
• The highest daily total (at a Bureau gauge) was 211.6 mm at Brooweena TM in Queensland in the 24 hours to 9 am on 25 October.