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 |
