Broome and Marble Bar, and probably other locations as well, gauged two to three times their normal dry season rainfall in just a few hours as a major northwesterly cloudband interacted with an unusual set of meteorological circumstances to produce the heaviest July day's rain in over a century. Follow the link at right. In an unusual dry season rain event, 24-hour rainfall records fell at Marble Bar, Broome and Darwin, and probably many other places, on 15 and 17 July. The links to a number of NSW, Victorian and Queensland Bureau of Meteorology forecast and observation pages have been updated. Saturday 14 July Changes to weather extremes reporting The criteria for reporting heavy short-duration rainfall on the daily weather extremes pages have been lowered to include more detail of moderate to heavy falls between 1 and 6 hours.
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Saturday 14 July Rain follows a dry period on the NSW coast Rain continued to fall on the NSW coast for much of last week breaking a dry spell of several weeks. Meanwhile, moderate rains continued in SE NSW and southern WA, while unusual rain for July fell in the WA Kimberley. Good rains continue in SW WA, SE NSW Monday 9 July New satellite image series begins in AWN Satellite cloud images have become familiar and functional tools to our understanding of the weather. They are the professional meteorologist's bread and butter, because they display the real-time workings of the atmosphere globally and locally as no other medium can. Perhaps they have become so familiar as to be mundane.