DAILY showers and thunderstorms impacted the tropical north throughout the week.

Weekly rainfall totals of 25 to 100 mm, and locally higher totals, were recorded across northern parts of the Kimberley in Western Australia, the Northern Territory’s Top End and northern Queensland.

During the week, cold fronts and associated troughs brought scattered showers and thunderstorms across parts of the south-east and eastern coast.

Weekly rainfall totals of 15 to 100 mm were recorded across much of Tasmania’s west and north, eastern Victoria, and parts of eastern New South Wales.

Most of the country away from the tropical north and south-east received little or no rainfall during the week.

The highest weekly total (at a Bureau gauge) was 196.4 mm at Cape Wessel in the Northern Territory, which included the highest daily total of 156.6 mm in the 24 hours to 9 am on 6 December.