Storms lead to heavy rainfall and the wettest November day in many years for some towns in northern NSW and southern QLD. 

A broad trough lead to extensive areas of cloud, rain and storms over these areas on Saturday, and lingering into Sunday. These wet and stormy conditions led to the wettest November day in: 

• 10 years for Fowlers Gap (16.4mm) 
• 8 years for and Armidale Ap (44.4mm) 
• 6 years for Inverell (61.0mm), Walgett Ap (43.6mm) and Inverell SCS (61.4mm) 
• 4 years for Guyra (31.0mm) 
• 3 years for Thargomindah (10.6mm) and Ballera (13mm) in Queensland 

Image 1: Satellite imagery showing storms bubbling across the region on Saturday afternoon. 

Image 2: Satellite imagery showing lingering storm and broad areas of rainfall on Sunday morning, with elevated rainfall totals (since 9am on Saturday) across the northeast corner of NSW. 

Over the course of Saturday and Sunday (until 1pm), storms across the region have generated 424,000 strikes, with 34,000 reaching the ground. These storms, which persisted well into the night, before fizzling out and turned to rain on Sunday morning. This resulted in many of the locations across the northeast corner of NSW to record rainfall totals in the 25-50mm range (see image 2 above). Heavy storms in the vicinity of Inverell also led to many rain gauges in the area recording totals in the 50-70mm range, in the 24 hours to 9am on Sunday. 

By Monday morning, this trough will have continued to deliver persistent rain, with widespread parts of the region expected to see another 20-40mm in the rain gauges, with heavier, more isolated falls also possible. This system will then clear to the east into Tuesday, before the next rain-bearing system begins to push into the region on Wednesday.