Townsville, Australia’s largest northern city, has already made history by recording its wettest year ever, achieving this milestone just three months and five days into 2025. As of 6 a.m. Saturday, the city has received an astonishing 2,419.8 mm of rain, surpassing the previous record of 2,400 mm set in 2000.
Felim Hanniffy, a senior forecaster at the Bureau of Meteorology, described the rainfall as extraordinary. “We have beaten the annual record now, which isn’t too bad going when you consider it’s only early April,” he remarked. While he indicated that the worst of the rain may be over, isolated falls of up to 100 mm are still possible throughout the day before the Townsville area begins to dry out over the next week.
“We still remain in a very unsettled and wet pattern overall, and that pattern is likely to continue for the first half of April,” Hanniffy added. Fortunately, Townsville has managed to avoid the widespread devastation caused by monsoonal floods in neighboring Ingham, although the city has still felt significant impacts.
February saw Townsville experience its wettest month on record, with 1,198 mm of rain—more than the city’s average annual rainfall—resulting in thirty homes being inundated. On March 19, the city recorded 300 mm of rain in just 24 hours, marking the wettest day in 27 years and recalling the infamous ‘Night of Noah’ on January 11, 1998, when 548.8 mm fell in a single day.
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