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The following table gives the most important recent occurrences of these downpours in Queensland:—

Amount Station. Locality. Date. Year.
35.71 Crohamhurst 45 miles north-west of Brisbane 31st January 1893
26.20 Buderim North of Brisbane 11th January 1898
25.12 The Hollow Mackay 23rd February 1888
23.33 Macnade Townsville 6th January 1901
23.07 Yeppon Rockhampton 31st January 1893
22.17 Dungeness Cardwell 16th March 1893
21.53 Mooloolah North of Brisbane 13th March 1892
22.22 Innisfail South of Cairns 29th December 1903
21.00 Nambour South of Gympie 9th January 1898
20.08 Yandina South of Gympie 1st February 1893
20.05 Yeppoon Rockhampton 31st January 1893
19.55 Crohamhurst 45 miles north-west of Brisbane 9th January 1898
19.55 Howard Maryborough 15th January 1905
19.20 Townsville North Coast 24th January 1892
18.24 Cardwell North Coast 18th March 1904
18.31 Brisbane South Coast 21st January 1887
18.07 Thornborough Near Cairns 20th April 1903
18.20 Anglesey Gympie 26th December 1909
18.05 Yeppoon Rockhampton 8th January 1898
17.40 Bloomsbury Brisbane region 14th February 1893
17.95 Mundoolun South of Brisbane 21st January 1887
17.75 Palmwoods Brisbane 25th December 1909


These phenomenal rains are seen to be most abundant between Cairns and Cardwell. The great number recorded in the Brisbane district is largely due to the fact that here the rain-gauges are well distributed and fairly numerous, which is not the case in the less settled regions of Queensland.

(4) Flood Rains in Western Australia.

Perhaps the most striking region in Australia for examples of abnormal rainfall is in the far north-west in Western Australia (Fig. 90). Here the 10-in. annual isohyet passes near many stations which have recorded more than that amount in one rainstorm, though of course falls of this type are few and far between. Some of the heavier falls are given in this table, where a comparison with the average annual amount should be found of interest in many cases:—

Inches. Station. Position. Date. Year. Average
Annual
Rainfall.
Number
of
Years.
36.49 Whim Creek Near Cossack 2nd and 3rd April 1898 19.87 14
27.06 Whim Creek Near Cossack 20th and 21st March 1899 19.87 14
24.18 Thangoo Near Broome 17th and 19th February 1896 22.61 17
21.42 Yeeda Near Derby 28th, 29th, and 30th December 1898 23.66 21
20.82 Wyndham Long., 128°, lat., 15° S. 11th, 12th, and 13th January 1903 27.27 25
20.40 Balla Near Cossack 20th and 21st March 1899 17.98 6
20.23 Derby King Sound 29th and 30th December 1898 26.38 26
20.12 Cossack Long, 117°, lat., 21° S. 15th and 16th April 1900 12.01 30
17.47 Obagama Near Derby 16th, 17th, and 18th February 1896 34.48 16
15.25 Boodarie North-east of Cossack 3rd and 4th January 1894 12.49 24
14.53 Boodarie North-east of Cossack 21st March 1899