A SLOW-moving low-pressure system and upper-level trough led to scattered showers, rain and isolated thunderstorms, some severe, over southern Western Australia September 26-28.

A cold front and associated trough brought scattered rain and showers to parts of the south-west and southern Western Australia on September 24.

Another cold front crossed south-eastern Australia and moved up the New South Wales coast on September 26.

Weekly rainfall totals of 10-100mm were recorded across large parts of southern Western Australia, much of western Tasmania, eastern parts of Victoria and much of the NSW coast.

Moist onshore winds brought scattered showers to parts of the north-eastern coast of Queensland and parts of the Top End coast of the Northern Territory.

Weekly rainfall totals of 15-50mm, and locally higher, were recorded across parts of northern tropical coast in Qld and coastal parts of the Gulf and western Top End.

The highest weekly total at a Bureau gauge was 169mm at Nerada Alert in Qld.

The highest daily total at a Bureau gauge was 70mm at Tung Oil Tm in Qld in the 24 hours to 9am on September 25.

NOTE: A systems outage on 24 September resulted in no daily rainfall totals reported for that day from bureau Automatic Weather Stations. These observations are in the process of being recovered. Daily rainfall observations from other bureau gauges were not impacted.