A rainband stretching more than 3,000 kilometres will engulf Australia next week, delivering soaking rains from the Pilbara and Kimberley, across the outback to the eastern seaboard.
This winter is defying the odds which were strongly weighted to produce below-average rain.
In Shepparton the monthly total has exceeded 100mm for the first time in a winter calendar month since 1991. This mammoth mass of cloud and rain will gradually shift east across central Australia early in the week and reach the south-east states from Wednesday. The system should deliver anywhere from 10 to 100mm across a wide swathe of north-west, central and south-east Australia with falls on the higher end of the range enough to easily surpass the winter average in just a few days for the outback.A low-pressure system may develop well north of the usual winter storm track to produce further heavy falls as far north as tropical Queensland.
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