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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	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$ 12.49	24
14.53	Boodarie	North-east of Cossack	21st March	1899