EX-PROPICAL Cyclone Maila, combined with moisture and a surface trough, bringing high rainfall totals along coastal northern and western Queensland, through the Top End of the Northern Territory, and into the northern Kimberley in Western Australia.

Areas with weekly totals above 25mm extend across much of the north of Australia, with totals above 100mm in the north-eastern Northern Territory, and the central inland and tropical north coast regions in Queensland.

Several cold fronts and troughs brought showers and storms to western and southern Australia during the week.

Weekly rainfall totals above 5mm were recorded in parts of the west of Western Australia, southern and elevated parts of Victoria, while western Tasmania had weekly totals above 25mm.

The highest weekly total at a Bureau of Meteorology gauge) was 356.2mm at Groote Eylandt AP (NT), which also included the highest daily total of 171.6mm in the 24 hours to 9am 17 April.