The big rain event delivered good rainfalls for many, and there is still a little more to come. The next weather systems don't look as significant, with lighter follow up falls over the next week.
On the following map (rain totals for the week, up until 9am on Sunday):
- the southeast Queensland and northern NSW falls were earlier last week
- the falls in the west were the kick off of this latest weather system - large areas with at least 10mm, and pockets with 25 to 50 mm, and local falls over 50mm
- the pattern in the southeast shows that the complex rain system had a feed of tropical moisture, meeting up with a cold front - then a low rolling across Bass Strait
In the 24 hours from 9am Sunday to 9am Monday the rainfalls continued across the southeast, spreading into areas that hadn't seen much by early Sunday: Gippsland, the southwest NSW slopes/northeast VIC/Riverina and southeastern Tasmania.
There is a bit more to come from this weather system before it eventually clears away, but falls are lighter as we go through Tuesday into Wednesday.
Up next, we have the following (see it play out day by day on our Rain Maps):
- the next cold front crosses the southwest later on Monday into Tuesday
- this crosses the Bight but doesn't bring anything significant when it crosses the southeast on Thursday/Friday
- another front crosses the southwest on Friday
- this one again crosses the Bight, but may also not deliver much when it reaches the southeast on the weekend (two models like a bit of rain from this system, while the other two have nothing/very light falls)
- there may be a surge behind that system that peaks in the southeast early next week
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