Extreme rain in Australia, 29 May to 6 June 2022

Name: Extreme rain in Australia, 29 May to 6 June 2022
Start: 2022-05-29
End: 2022-06-06
Location: Australia

Extreme rain in Australia, 29 May to 6 June 2022: 110 records at 77 stations, peak on 31 May 2022. Closed.

Data as of 2026-10-12. Last revised 12 October 2026 (2026-10-12).

Key Facts

Extreme rain in Australia, 29 May to 6 June 2022 set or tied 110 station records at 77 stations.
It ran from 29 May 2022 to 6 June 2022 (9 days) and its peak day was 31 May 2022.
Status: closed.
Red Hill set a monthly record daily precipitation of 145.2 mm (5.7 in) on 29 May 2022.
The busiest day was 31 May 2022 with 22 records.
The oldest broken record in the ranked list had stood for 117 years.

Footprint

29 May to 6 June 2022

The area covered by Extreme rain in Australia, 29 May to 6 June 2022 is outlined, with 18 of the stations that set records marked, coloured by record type. Made with Natural Earth.

Footprint of Extreme rain in Australia, 29 May to 6 June 2022: stations that set records in the event
Station	Type	Value	Date
Red Hill	Record daily precipitation	145.2 mm (5.7 in)	2022-05-29
Port Hedland Airport	Record daily precipitation	86.2 mm (3.4 in)	2022-05-30
Coolawanyah	Record daily precipitation	61.0 mm (2.4 in)	2022-05-29
Mardie	Record daily precipitation	77.8 mm (3.1 in)	2022-05-29
Exmouth Town	Record daily precipitation	128.0 mm (5.0 in)	2022-05-29
Indee	Record daily precipitation	137.6 mm (5.4 in)	2022-05-30
Onslow Airport	Record daily precipitation	84.8 mm (3.3 in)	2022-05-29
Mount Florance	Record daily precipitation	85.0 mm (3.3 in)	2022-05-29
Muccan	Record daily precipitation	55.0 mm (2.2 in)	2022-05-30
Dampier Salt	Record daily precipitation	70.0 mm (2.8 in)	2022-05-30
Millstream	Record daily precipitation	67.0 mm (2.6 in)	2022-05-29
Sherlock	Record daily precipitation	125.4 mm (4.9 in)	2022-05-30
Nicholson	Record daily precipitation	28.0 mm (1.1 in)	2022-06-05
Yarrie	Record daily precipitation	60.0 mm (2.4 in)	2022-05-30
Meda	Record daily precipitation	18.8 mm (0.7 in)	2022-06-01
Mount Hart Station	Record daily precipitation	16.0 mm (0.6 in)	2022-06-01
Ruby Plains	Record daily precipitation	21.0 mm (0.8 in)	2022-06-02
Moola Bulla	Record daily precipitation	22.2 mm (0.9 in)	2022-06-03

Records per Day

Peak day 22

Records set or tied each day from 29 May 2022 to 6 June 2022. The most in one day was 22 on 31 May 2022.

Top Records by Margin

Margin over the record replaced

Top records of Extreme rain in Australia, 29 May to 6 June 2022 ranked by margin
Exmouth Town, 05-29	89.2 mm (3.5 in)
Port Hedland Airport, 05-30	75.2 mm (3.0 in)
Dampier Salt, 05-30	58.0 mm (2.3 in)
Coolawanyah, 05-29	55.2 mm (2.2 in)
Millstream, 05-29	50.0 mm (2.0 in)
Muccan, 05-30	46.1 mm (1.8 in)
Mardie, 05-29	42.0 mm (1.7 in)
Red Hill, 05-29	41.6 mm (1.6 in)
Onslow Airport, 05-29	38.1 mm (1.5 in)
Sherlock, 05-30	30.1 mm (1.2 in)
Moola Bulla, 06-03	22.2 mm (0.9 in)
Meda, 06-01	18.8 mm (0.7 in)
Mount Hart Station, 06-01	16.0 mm (0.6 in)
Ruby Plains, 06-02	14.6 mm (0.6 in)
Indee, 05-30	13.1 mm (0.5 in)

Margin is how far the new value is beyond the record it replaced. Ties are not shown.

Margin Against Age of the Broken Record

110 records plotted by how far they beat the old record (across) and how many years the old record had stood (up). Long standing records beaten by a wide margin sit in the top right.

Margin against age of the broken record in Extreme rain in Australia, 29 May to 6 June 2022
Margin (mm)	Years the old record stood
42	91
22	117
75	32
55	23
42	80
89	41
13	92
19	111
16	96
38	80
46	60
11	80
58	31
50	23
30	51
2	88
10	96
13	100
6	117
15	80
42	52
25	80
24	72
28	72
19	28
22	14
29	59
28	31
55	24
1	92
1	92
17	51
2	64
3	80
23	31
4	80
1	91
3	80
5	77
1	80
1	80
45	0
1	80
22	51
10	52
1	75
2	75
6	51
6	30
18	33
18	17
13	40
0	72
0	72
3	57
7	53
1	60
9	52
7	56
7	51
15	17
6	51
18	49
0	69
8	52
5	56
10	31
9	40
15	17
14	40
5	53
4	52
5	51
18	12
19	23
4	49
0	53
6	36
1	52
14	3
7	29
11	12
9	17
1	44
5	35
15	17
6	17
4	17
11	23
12	23
1	24
19	17
13	17
2	17
11	17
2	31
5	17
3	29
7	17
3	17
8	0
1	11
4	17
5	17
2	23
3	24
1	23
4	0
4	12
2	12

Compared With Other Events

Station records per event

Station records in Extreme rain in Australia, 29 May to 6 June 2022 compared with similar events
Extreme rain in United States and Mexico, 23 February to 15 March 2019	2,223 records
Extreme rain in United States, 3 to 19 January 2024	2,133 records
Extreme rain in Australia, 7 to 26 March 2021	2,099 records
Extreme rain in United States and Mexico, 29 September to 19 October 2018	1,970 records
Extreme rain in United States, 19 December 2022 to 13 January 2023	1,941 records
Extreme rain in Australia, 29 May to 6 June 2022 (this event)	110 records

Every Record Set

20 of 110

Every record set or tied during Extreme rain in Australia, 29 May to 6 June 2022, in date order
Date	Station	Record	Value	Margin	Years stood	Significance
2022-05-29	Red Hill	Record daily precipitation	145.2 mm (5.7 in)	41.6 mm (1.6 in)	91	70 of 100 (Major)
2022-05-29	Coolawanyah	Record daily precipitation	61.0 mm (2.4 in)	55.2 mm (2.2 in)	23	56 of 100 (Notable)
2022-05-29	Mardie	Record daily precipitation	77.8 mm (3.1 in)	42.0 mm (1.7 in)	80	55 of 100 (Notable)
2022-05-29	Exmouth Town	Record daily precipitation	128.0 mm (5.0 in)	89.2 mm (3.5 in)	41	55 of 100 (Notable)
2022-05-29	Onslow Airport	Record daily precipitation	84.8 mm (3.3 in)	38.1 mm (1.5 in)	80	52 of 100 (Notable)
2022-05-29	Mount Florance	Record daily precipitation	85.0 mm (3.3 in)	11.1 mm (0.4 in)	80	51 of 100 (Notable)
2022-05-29	Millstream	Record daily precipitation	67.0 mm (2.6 in)	50.0 mm (2.0 in)	23	50 of 100 (Notable)
2022-05-30	Port Hedland Airport	Record daily precipitation	86.2 mm (3.4 in)	75.2 mm (3.0 in)	32	57 of 100 (Notable)
2022-05-30	Indee	Record daily precipitation	137.6 mm (5.4 in)	13.1 mm (0.5 in)	92	54 of 100 (Notable)
2022-05-30	Muccan	Record daily precipitation	55.0 mm (2.2 in)	46.1 mm (1.8 in)	60	51 of 100 (Notable)
2022-05-30	Dampier Salt	Record daily precipitation	70.0 mm (2.8 in)	58.0 mm (2.3 in)	31	51 of 100 (Notable)
2022-05-30	Sherlock	Record daily precipitation	125.4 mm (4.9 in)	30.1 mm (1.2 in)	51	49 of 100 (Notable)
2022-05-30	Yarrie	Record daily precipitation	60.0 mm (2.4 in)	12.5 mm (0.5 in)	100	46 of 100 (Notable)
2022-06-01	Meda	Record daily precipitation	18.8 mm (0.7 in)	18.8 mm (0.7 in)	111	20 of 100 (Routine)
2022-06-01	Mount Hart Station	Record daily precipitation	16.0 mm (0.6 in)	16.0 mm (0.6 in)	96	20 of 100 (Routine)
2022-06-02	Ruby Plains	Record daily precipitation	21.0 mm (0.8 in)	14.6 mm (0.6 in)	80	20 of 100 (Routine)
2022-06-03	Moola Bulla	Record daily precipitation	22.2 mm (0.9 in)	22.2 mm (0.9 in)	117	20 of 100 (Routine)
2022-06-05	Nicholson	Record daily precipitation	28.0 mm (1.1 in)	2.1 mm (0.08 in)	88	48 of 100 (Notable)
2022-06-05	Moola Bulla	Record daily precipitation	6.4 mm (0.25 in)	6.4 mm (0.25 in)	117	20 of 100 (Routine)
2022-06-05	Mount Hart Station	Record daily precipitation	10.0 mm (0.4 in)	10.0 mm (0.4 in)	96	20 of 100 (Routine)

The daily ledgers keep a limited number of records per day, so this list has 20 of the 110 records the event counts. The counts above use the full total.

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Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Climatology Network Daily (GHCN-Daily). Records are computed by World Extreme Weather Monitor and are not official NOAA products. (US Government open data (NOAA NCEI)) Data as of 2026-10-12. Events are found by this site from station records and are not official designations. Records are provisional until reprocessed.

Date	Records
2022-05-29	16
2022-05-30	13
2022-05-31	22
2022-06-01	17
2022-06-02	10
2022-06-03	12
2022-06-04	4
2022-06-05	14
2022-06-06	2

Margin (mm)	Years the old record stood
42	91
22	117
75	32
55	23
42	80
89	41
13	92
19	111
16	96
38	80
46	60
11	80
58	31
50	23
30	51
2	88
10	96
13	100
6	117
15	80
42	52
25	80
24	72
28	72
19	28
22	14
29	59
28	31
55	24
1	92
1	92
17	51
2	64
3	80
23	31
4	80
1	91
3	80
5	77
1	80
1	80
45	0
1	80
22	51
10	52
1	75
2	75
6	51
6	30
18	33
18	17
13	40
0	72
0	72
3	57
7	53
1	60
9	52
7	56
7	51
15	17
6	51
18	49
0	69
8	52
5	56
10	31
9	40
15	17
14	40
5	53
4	52
5	51
18	12
19	23
4	49
0	53
6	36
1	52
14	3
7	29
11	12
9	17
1	44
5	35
15	17
6	17
4	17
11	23
12	23
1	24
19	17
13	17
2	17
11	17
2	31
5	17
3	29
7	17
3	17
8	0
1	11
4	17
5	17
2	23
3	24
1	23
4	0
4	12
2	12

Margin (mm)	Years the old record stood
42	91
22	117
75	32
55	23
42	80
89	41
13	92
19	111
16	96
38	80
46	60
11	80
58	31
50	23
30	51
2	88
10	96
13	100
6	117
15	80
42	52
25	80
24	72
28	72
19	28
22	14
29	59
28	31
55	24
1	92
1	92
17	51
2	64
3	80
23	31
4	80
1	91
3	80
5	77
1	80
1	80
45	0
1	80
22	51
10	52
1	75
2	75
6	51
6	30
18	33
18	17
13	40
0	72
0	72
3	57
7	53
1	60
9	52
7	56
7	51
15	17
6	51
18	49
0	69
8	52
5	56
10	31
9	40
15	17
14	40
5	53
4	52
5	51
18	12
19	23
4	49
0	53
6	36
1	52
14	3
7	29
11	12
9	17
1	44
5	35
15	17
6	17
4	17
11	23
12	23
1	24
19	17
13	17
2	17
11	17
2	31
5	17
3	29
7	17
3	17
8	0
1	11
4	17
5	17
2	23
3	24
1	23
4	0
4	12
2	12

Margin (mm)	Years the old record stood
42	91
22	117
75	32
55	23
42	80
89	41
13	92
19	111
16	96
38	80
46	60
11	80
58	31
50	23
30	51
2	88
10	96
13	100
6	117
15	80
42	52
25	80
24	72
28	72
19	28
22	14
29	59
28	31
55	24
1	92
1	92
17	51
2	64
3	80
23	31
4	80
1	91
3	80
5	77
1	80
1	80
45	0
1	80
22	51
10	52
1	75
2	75
6	51
6	30
18	33
18	17
13	40
0	72
0	72
3	57
7	53
1	60
9	52
7	56
7	51
15	17
6	51
18	49
0	69
8	52
5	56
10	31
9	40
15	17
14	40
5	53
4	52
5	51
18	12
19	23
4	49
0	53
6	36
1	52
14	3
7	29
11	12
9	17
1	44
5	35
15	17
6	17
4	17
11	23
12	23
1	24
19	17
13	17
2	17
11	17
2	31
5	17
3	29
7	17
3	17
8	0
1	11
4	17
5	17
2	23
3	24
1	23
4	0
4	12
2	12