Month: April 2025

7 April 2025 | Data: Bureau of Meteorology

Townsville surpasses rainfall record by wide margin.

Townsville, Queensland, has surpassed it’s water year rainfall record by a substantial amount with 3114.2mm to April 6th and 3 months of observations to account for. The previous record from year ending June1890 was 2520mm. 594.2mm represents a 23.5% increase on anything observed in the composite record commencing1872. The record includes two stations 32047 (Townsville Pilot Station to1940) and 32040 (Townsville Airport from 1941). At April 6th, the calendar year record is 30mm behind the 1894 calendar year 2482.6mm record with 9 months of observations to include.

| Bureau of Meteorology

Albany, Western Australia, Rainfall Record

A 24 hour rainfall total of 126.4mm was observed at Albany, Western Australia on 14th March, the highest in a record going back to 1877. This is only the third occasion in the record that daily totals have exceeded 100mm, with 113.6mm in 2008, and 103.6mm in 1921. The record has substantial gaps however. The rainfall was caused by a microburst.

| UK Met Office

England has sunniest March since records commenced

With 185.8 hours of sunshine throughout March, England enjoyed 59% more sunshine than its long-term meteorological average, making March 2025 its sunniest March since this series began in 1910, beating the previous record of 171.7 hours recorded in March 1929 by more than 14 hours.  (UK Met Office)