Widespread soaking rain with heavy falls in some locations impacted much of South Australia, Victoria and inland parts of New South Wales yesterday and overnight. And then that threat is moving into New South Wales and eastern Victoria today. But let's have a look at what happened yesterday and overnight.

You can see widespread rainfall extending from South Australia all the way through Victoria and much of inland New South Wales as well. With rainfall also moving down into Tasmania. Now, into the 24 hours to 9:00 this morning, we saw widespread falls of 50 to 70 mm in the Adelaide Hills, Adelaide itself around 30 and up to 70 or 75 mm in the hills.

Further eastwards through Victoria. Most areas saw 10 to 20 mm across the state. Higher falls in the north-eastern part of the state, with falls of up to 50 mm there and 30 mm up around the Grampians. While into New South Wales generally 10 to 20 mm through inland areas, I should say 5 to 15 for western areas.

Well, up in our alpine areas once again, we saw around Thredbo getting around 60 mm. And all of that is into the 24 hours to 9:00 this morning. Now, all this widespread rainfall on already saturated soils and catchments has led to numerous rivers experiencing minor flooding.

Now we have a number of Minor Flood Warnings current to parts of New South Wales, much of northern Victoria and even into parts of South Australia as well. In South Australia, we have the Torrens River and the Onkaparinga River experiencing minor flooding there. In Victoria, we have the Avoca, parts of the Murray, also the King and Kiewa River experiencing minor flooding.

And in New South Wales, we have Tumut river also experiencing minor flooding there. And further rainfall today and tonight could see renewed river level rises on our already flooded rivers, creeks and streams, particularly across northern Victoria and inland parts of New South Wales. So if you live on or near rivers, creeks and streams across northern Victoria or south-eastern parts of New South Wales, make sure you stay up to date, latest forecast and warnings and any issues with your local emergency services there.

But the other threat today is going to be severe thunderstorms. So looking at all of that in more detail. Today's thunderstorm forecast map shows a large area of thunderstorms expected across much of inland Queensland, all of inland New South Wales and just getting up into northern parts of Victoria.

Now in the yellow highlighted area, we could see severe thunderstorms possible. Well, in the red highlighted area, we could see severe thunderstorms likely. Now this means we could have thunderstorms producing heavy rain, damaging winds and if storms get organised enough, we could even see some large hail through these red highlighted areas.

So not everyone will get the storm today. But if you are expecting or do experience a thunderstorm today, we could see heavy rain, damaging winds and possibly large hail in these red and yellow highlighted areas. But let's look at all of this in more detail.

So this morning the low is moving through the area with wrapping rain on the backside, with a very large band of rain and storm activity ahead of that low as it moves through eastern parts of New South Wales and also into northern parts of Victoria as well, and some welcome rainfall through inland parts of Queensland, where we know it has been fairly dry. Now this is 6:00 tonight.

Then, as we move into the evening and overnight hours, that band of rain and storms will continue moving eastwards into eastern parts of New South Wales and south-eastern inland Queensland as well, with some light to moderate falls there. But notice conditions quickly easing through much of Victoria, Tasmania, inland New South Wales and South Australia, as well as high pressure moves in.

And by the time we get to Wednesday afternoon, you'll note that rain has cleared pretty much all of eastern and south-eastern Australia. But how much rainfall are we looking at? Well, firstly, before that we'll look at some of the, we can see widespread falls around 10 to 20 mm, particularly through our inland areas of New South Wales and southern inland Queensland, with heavier falls possible, particularly through northern and north-eastern parts of Victoria.

And that's where we have that already ongoing flood threat. Well, notice only light falls are expected, with showers continuing today through parts of South Australia, and also only lighter falls through parts of Tasmania as well. But some welcome rainfall through parts of the Darling Downs, North West Slopes and Plains and north-eastern New South Wales, where it has been so dry over the last few months.

Now all this rain and storms will have a few impacts. Firstly, further riverine flooding as I showed you earlier. So make sure you stay up to date, latest forecast and warnings and any advice from your local emergency services. Some of the thunderstorms today could lead to flash flooding through inland parts of New South Wales and northern parts of Victoria.

And for many, this is going to be our first outbreak of spring-like thunderstorm activity, something that we're going to see a lot more of as we move into September, October and November. So with all the rain and storms around much of south-eastern Australia today and tomorrow, and a bit of flooding ongoing through parts of Victoria, South Australia and New South Wales, make sure you listen to all advice from your local emergency services, and check the latest forecast and warnings for your area via our website, app and social media.