Rainfall update
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
Moderate to high rainfall totals across areas from the north-west to the south-east
- Throughout the week, a large slow moving high pressure system centred south of the mainland, pushed onshore flow and persistent rainfall along parts of the east coast. Weekly totals of 10 mm to locally more than 100 mm were recorded along coastal New South Wales and parts of Queensland.
- From 15 May, tropical moisture from a northwest cloudband, brought rainfall across a diagonal band spanning Australia to the south-east, including weekly totals of at least 5 mm to 50 mm over most of the region, and up to more than 100 mm in the north of the Lake Eyre basin.
- During the week, cold fronts brought light to moderate rain to some southern areas, with parts of the far south-west coast of Western Australia recording weekly totals of 10 to 25 mm.
- The highest weekly total (at a Bureau gauge) of 247.0 mm was recorded at Topaz Alert, and the highest daily total of 81.0 mm was recorded at Binna Burra Alert and Numinbah Alert (both Queensland) in the 24 hours to 9 am on 18 May.
Product code: IDCKGRWAR0
History
Previous rainfall reports
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