Tropical Cyclone Alfred: tracking rainfall and wind speeds​on March 7, 2025 at 11:14 pm

As the cyclone slowly makes landfall, follow the wild winds and heavy rain lashing south-east Queensland and northern NSW, and how they compare to historical recordsTropical Cyclone Alfred LIVE: latest news and updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastEven before Tropical Cyclone Alfred makes landfall, thousands across New South Wales and Queensland have been sheltering from the wild weather, with hundreds of millimetres of rain this week.This map shows the total rainfall at weather stations over the past seven days, and will be updated regularly throughout the weekend. A darker shade of purple indicates higher rainfall. Continue reading…As the cyclone slowly makes landfall, follow the wild winds and heavy rain lashing south-east Queensland and northern NSW, and how they compare to historical recordsTropical Cyclone Alfred LIVE: latest news and updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastEven before Tropical Cyclone Alfred makes landfall, thousands across New South Wales and Queensland have been sheltering from the wild weather, with hundreds of millimetres of rain this week.This map shows the total rainfall at weather stations over the past seven days, and will be updated regularly throughout the weekend. A darker shade of purple indicates higher rainfall. Continue reading…   

Even before Tropical Cyclone Alfred makes landfall, thousands across New South Wales and Queensland have been sheltering from the wild weather, with hundreds of millimetres of rain this week.

This map shows the total rainfall at weather stations over the past seven days, and will be updated regularly throughout the weekend. A darker shade of purple indicates higher rainfall.

By Friday a senior meteorologist at the BoM had warned that some parts of the NSW northern rivers were “already on their way to major flooding”.

We can see the scale of this rain by comparing it to historical records. Many of these areas had previously been experiencing a dry-ish year. Before the cyclone-induced rain, weather stations in Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast had seen cumulative rainfalls at less than half (median) of historic levels.

You can explore more in the chart below. It will be periodically updated throughout the weekend.

Here, we’re tracking the wind speeds at five locations in northern NSW and southern Queensland

Notes and methods:

• Historic rain levels calculated using the Bureau of Meteorology’s long-run climate data for each weather station

• Historic rain data was grouped by the day of the year before the 10th and 90th percentile were calculated

• Rain records for 29 February have been removed from the data to ensure consistency