The Urraween Rain Gauge

15/02/2026

185mm so far from this rain event. With more rain coming in from both directions, literally. Check out this video showing the rain coming from both left and right at the same time!

03/01/2026

2025 summary.

01/09/2025

Winter Review:
A dry June
An average July
A wet August.
Overall average winter rainfall.

Spring is looking like it could be a wet and volatile one.

31/05/2025

May has been another wet month. Although recording only 20mm more than the Hervey Bay average, 23 out of the 31 days had some rain recorded.
We are also exactly halfway through the year and already exactly totalling the annual average rainfall of 1020mm.

02/04/2025

March has been a wet month for Queenslanders! The URG recorded 535mm in March. 4 times the average March rainfall. Some other local rain gauges are above 700mm for the month.
The current rain looks to be the last of the wet deluges. Blue skies should be around the corner again.

09/03/2025

08/03/2025

Wow! What a crazy morning! An unusually high energy storm system that is feeding into Alfred, has hammered out city with some lightning and strong winds, but the rainfall is just insane!
Since 4:30am (3 hours)
- The URG has recorded 112mm
- The airport (BOM) has recorded 250mm
- And Bob from Torquay has recorded 300mm

The rain continues as many streets are impacted by flash flooding.

12/01/2025

A short burst of rain that was the heaviest the URG has recorded. It fell at a rate of 124mm/hr.

10/01/2025

It's been a little while, but here is the final totals for 2024. With December hitting 400mm, we smashed the average and ended up with a total of 1481mm for 2024.

20/09/2024

Just what the doctor ordered to make things green again. A storm cell that produced 27.5mm of rain.