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Weekly rainfall update + rainfall outlook 13 January 2025

Bureau of Meteorology January 15, 2025

COLD fronts and associated troughs during the week brought widespread showers and scattered storms, some severe, to the New South Wales and Queensland coasts, eastern Victoria, Tasmania, and southern parts of Western Australia.

Persistent low pressure troughs through the interior, eastern states and Western Australia triggered storms and scattered rainfall in these regions.

Weekly rainfall totals greater than 25mm were recorded across northern and western parts of the Northern Territory, northern and eastern Queensland, eastern New South Wales, Victoria, north-eastern Tasmania, and northern and isolated pockets of southern Western Australia.

Weekly rainfall totals of 50-100mm were recorded across isolated areas of northern Western Australia, northern and central parts of the Northern Territory, northern and eastern regions of Queensland, eastern New South Wales and in north-eastern Victoria and Tasmania.

Weekly rainfall totals greater than 100mm were recorded in isolated parts of Queensland’s north and south-east, along the New South Wales coast, north-eastern Tasmania, and in northern Western Australia and Northern Territory.

The highest weekly total at a Bureau of Meteorology gauge was 317.4mm at Careys Peak (Barrington Tops) in New South Wales.

The highest daily total at a bureau gauge was 195mm at Tully Sugar Mill in Queensland in the 24 hours to 9am on 7 January.

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