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January. Rainfall Nation-wide in January 2022 was 30% higher than average, the 4th highest on record for South Australia and the seventh Highest for Victoria. [1] Ex-Tropical Cyclone Seth bought over 400mm of Rain to the hills outside Gympie, with 674mm falling in Marodian. [2]
The highest annual rainfall was 12,461.0 millimetres (490.6 in) recorded also at Mount Bellenden Ker in 2000. [97] Additionally, the location which receives the highest average annual rainfall in Australia is Babinda in Queensland with an annual average of 4,279.4 millimetres (168.5 in). [98]
The rain gauge at its summit records an annual average rainfall of 8,053.6 mm (317.07 in), making it the wettest meteorological station in Australia. It also holds the record for the highest rainfall in a calendar year of 12,461 mm (490.6 in) in 2000 and the highest rainfall in Australia for a calendar month of 5,387 mm (212.1 in) in January 1979.
Australia's annual average temperatures are projected to increase 0.4–2.0 °C above 1990 levels by the year 2030, and 1–6 °C by 2070. Average precipitation in the southwest and southeast Australia is projected to decline during this time, while regions such as the northwest may experience increases in rainfall.
Peachester. Peachester. Crohamhurst is a rural locality in the Sunshine Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. [2] In the 2021 census, Crohamhurst had a population of 219 people. [1] In 1893, Crohamhurst recorded 907 mm (35.7 in) of rain in one day during the passage of a cyclone, which is the record highest 24-hour rainfall in Australia.
Rainfall averages from 1,200 millimetres (mm) to over 8,000 mm annually. [8] The highest mountains along the escarpment between Cairns and Tully receive the highest rainfall, mainly owing to orographic factors. Mount Bellenden Ker is the wettest recording station in the area with other high peaks and eastern slopes favouring high rainfall. [8]
A significant immigrant population occupied these places with relatively little dispute and few inner city ghettoes. [13] Australia’s mean population density is 3.3/km 2, one of the lowest in the world. [14] Sport plays an important social and cultural role in Australia with more than 90% of adults having an interest in sport. [15]
Brisbane's wettest day occurred on 21 January 1887, when 465 millimetres (18.3 in) of rain fell on the city, the highest maximum daily rainfall of Australia's capital cities. The wettest month on record was February 1893, when 1,025.9 millimetres (40.39 in) of rain fell, although in the last 30 years the record monthly rainfall has been a much ...