Today
Has it rained enough in Brisbane?
Rain soaked in yesterday, and the ground is still holding it.
Brisbane has had 205.1mm of rain in the last 30 days. That is well above the 81.3mm a normal October brings here, and closer to the wettest on record (202.1mm).
Rain reaching the roots · 14 days
18 OctToday
Reached the roots
Rain that did not
3 days of 14
Thirty years
Rain in Brisbane through a normal year
Across a normal year Brisbane gets about 955.6mm of rain, most of it in February (140.9mm) and least in July (32.1mm).
A normal October in Brisbane has rain on 12 days. Only 7 of them bring enough to reach a root.
That makes Brisbane the wettest place this site covers in Australia in October — 81.3mm against Perth's 32.4mm at the other end.
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Average rainfall by month, 1995–2024
What it means
What that means for what you grow
- Pots and hanging basketsWorth checking by hand even so — a pot in the sun can dry out in a wet week, because there is so little soil to hold anything.
- Beds and bordersNothing needed. Watering soil that is already wet does more harm than good.
- New plantingsAnything planted within the last month is the exception; its roots have not spread far enough to find water on their own.