SEVERE Tropical Cyclone Fina made landfall on the north-east Kimberley coast of Western Australia late on 25 November and brought locally intense rainfall.

Troughs and humid, unstable air over central, northern and eastern Australia, triggered widespread storms, some severe, throughout the week.

Weekly totals of 15 to 50 mm, and some localised totals exceeding 150 mm, were recorded from the Kimberley region of Western Australia to the Queensland east coast, including large areas of inland Australia.

Cold fronts and troughs crossed southern Australia during the week, producing weekly rainfall totals between 5 mm and 50 mm across much of the south-east, with higher totals in elevated areas and western Tasmania.

The highest weekly total (at a Bureau gauge) was 222.8 mm, at Wyndham Aero (WA), which also included the highest daily total of 147.2 mm in the 24 hours to 9 am on 26 November from the passage of Severe Tropical Cyclone Fina.