{"id":509130,"date":"2026-02-28T06:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/509130\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T06:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T06:15:14","slug":"heavy-rain-drenching-south-australia-and-victoria-and-much-more-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/509130\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rain drenching South Australia and Victoria, and much more to come"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0low pressure\u00a0system over the country\u2019s interior has been slowly moving southward, as\u00a0stated\u00a0in\u00a0Anthony Sharwood\u2019s story<\/a>,\u00a0leading to increased heavy falls over South Australia and Victoria.\u00a0Flooding rainfall persists over South Australia, with\u00a0a\u00a0severe weather\u00a0warning<\/a>\u00a0active for every district in the state. Yesterday the heaviest falls were recorded in the state\u2019s west, with 24-hour totals\u00a0recorded and estimated to have\u00a0reached:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n


\n180mm at Ooldea\u00a0\u00a0(midday Fri 27th\u00a0to midday Sat 28th)\u00a0 <\/p>\n

In the 24 hours to 9am this morning (28th\u00a0February)\u00a0South Australia saw:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n


\n103mm in Minnipa\u00a0(and a further 25mm+ from 9am)\u00a0 <\/p>\n


\n75.2mm in Ceduna\u00a0(and a further 30mm+ from 9am)\u00a0 <\/p>\n


\n69.0mm in Wudinna\u00a0(and a further 15mm+ from 9am)\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\u00a0For many places in the state’s west, it’s been the heaviest rain in several years, decades in some places.<\/p>\n

Victoria also experienced heavy falls yesterday.\u00a0Some cities in western Victoria saw the heaviest\u00a0rainfall in the 24 hours on February 27th\u00a0than they had seen in the last 3-8 years, if not the highest February falls in a decade! Some of these cities include:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n


\nHorsham saw\u00a096.4mm in 24 hours. The heaviest fall on record for the city (where the record starts at 1998). Of this 96.4mm, approximately 91.0mm of it fell in one hour!\u00a0 <\/p>\n


\nLongerenong\u00a0saw 52.6mm in 24 hours. The heaviest\u00a0fall since November 2018, and heaviest February rain since 1973\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n


\nWarracknabeal saw 47.8mm in 24 hours. The heaviest fall since\u00a0January\u00a02022\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n


\nEdenhope saw 32.4mm in 24 hours. The heaviest fall since November 2023, and heaviest February rain since 2020\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n


\nKilmore Gap\u00a0saw 24.4mm in 24 hours. The heaviest\u00a0February rain since 2013\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n


\nLatrobe Valley saw 30.2mm in 24 hours. The heaviest February rain since 2015\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n


\nCharlton saw 27.2mm in 24 hours. The heaviest February rain since 2016\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

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Rainfall is expected to persist over South Australia this weekend, slowly moving into Victoria and western NSW on Monday as a front pushes the weakening low eastward.\u00a0The heaviest rainfall is expected with thunderstorms, as southeast South Australia experienced this morning;\u00a0more than 110,000 lightning\u00a0strikes in the 300km around Mount Gambier\u00a0Saturday 28th\u00a0morning and\u00a010 to 30mm of rainfall per location in the vicinity.\u00a0A severe weather warning was issued for these thunderstorms by the\u00a0Bureau\u00a0of Meteorology for this morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Image: Radar detected lightning strikes within a 300km radius of Mount Gambier\u00a0<\/p>\n

Daily rainfall totals exceeding 100mm can be expected for SA over the weekend, with similar rates possible in Victoria on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Bureau\u00a0of Meteorology has issued severe weather and flood warnings for South Australia,\u00a0western\u00a0Victoria\u00a0and southwest New South Wales today, which are likely to be extended for Sunday and Monday at the very least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0low pressure\u00a0system over the country\u2019s interior has been slowly moving southward, as\u00a0stated\u00a0in\u00a0Anthony Sharwood\u2019s story,\u00a0leading to increased heavy falls…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":509131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-509130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}