Also see Real-time Rain and Flood Monitoring, and Satellite Rainfall Estimates under Satellite Images > Other Images

1. A vast range of rainfall maps for Australia and each state, for time periods ranging from the latest day to the past 3 years, and including southern and northern wet seasons to date, and year and month to date. You can have rainfall in millimetres, or as percentages or deciles of normal, and make comparisons between this year and previous years. There's also a column giving information on rainfall deficiencies, and departures from the long term average. Archives for a limited period are available at the bottom of the panel. Click the "longer" arrow to see a longer period finishing today. (17/03/01)
2. Daily and weekly rainfall bulletins for each state for the 24 hours to 0900 local. BoM (16/01/00)
3. The Bureau of Meteorology's weekly rainfall commentary (30/10/02)
4. Full Australian rain lists for the latest day | latest week | current month to date | most recent month | most recent 3-month period from the BoM (11/10/00)
5. Average rainfall by rainfall district across Australia: latest week | current month to date | most recent month | most recent 3-month period. See this map of rainfall districts. From the BoM (11/10/00)
6. Full Australian rain list archives -- daily rainfall | monthly rainfall from the BoM. The file names are in the format yyyymmddyyyymmdd, giving the start and finish dates for the data -- e.g. 2000010120000101 is daily rain for 1 January 2000.  (16/01/00)
7. The BoM's SILO interface for selecting recent rainfall data, maps or gridded data (16/01/00)
8. Archive of rainfall graphics from the Qld DPI -- rainfall maps for Australia and Queensland going back to 1900. (19/2/00)
9. Maps of operational Australian rainfall, forecast and aviation areas from staff at Kalgoorlie - Boulder MO (21/03/00)
10. NSW Coastal and Macquarie River basin rainfall -- hourly telemetered data from Manly Hydraulics Laboratory. Click the area of interest on the right side of the maps, then click the location on the third map. Some locations are river level gauges. (10/03/00)

• US real time hourly rain data clickable map from NOAA's Forecast System Lab. This takes several minutes to load. While you're waiting, load the instructions in a different window and read them -- (compulsory!), then play with your mouse as you run up your Internet bill with this Java intelligent map of today's (and the last year's) US rainfall. You'll need recent versions of Netscape or Explorer for it to work. (21/03/00)