A self-serve map of every rain gauge that recorded rainfall for any date range and area in Australia. Browse the BoM AWS network, Water Data Online, river-rain gauges and DPIRD all on one map, download CSV / ZIP / GeoJSON, save and share the search. Useful for scoping an event before commissioning a full rainfall estimation, or when you just need the gauge picture. Part of Labs, our opt-in programme for features that are useful and ready for real-world testing but still polishing rough edges.
Pick an area on the map, pick a date range, and the Rainfall Extractor plots every gauge inside that area that recorded rainfall in that window. Click a gauge to see its time-series. Drag to refine the area, tweak the dates, save the search.
No radar processing, no gauge correction, no NetCDF grids. Just the underlying gauge data, laid out so you can answer "what rain actually fell at the gauges I have available?" quickly. When you need radar-derived spatial coverage between gauges, that's what the rainfall estimation service is for.
Every extract is a saved, sharable URL with the area, dates, and filters baked in.
Every BoM AWS, Water Data Online rain gauge, river-rain network gauge and DPIRD station that recorded rainfall in your window, shown on the map with its event total. Filter by source and reporting interval.
Click any gauge for its time-series at the gauge's native reporting interval. Switch between cumulative and per-interval views.
One-click CSV of every gauge in view, ZIP with one CSV per gauge for batch processing, and a GeoJSON of gauge locations + totals ready to drop into QGIS.
Each extract lives at its own URL. Edit it later, share a read-only link with your team or a client, or come back and tweak the area without retyping anything.
Draw a freehand box, pick a BoM forecast or fire-weather district, an LGA, a postcode, a rainfall district, a flood catchment, or a custom polygon. The area definition is part of the extract.
Animate the BoM radar over your area for the event so the gauges have spatial context. Useful for sanity-checking the gauge picture before going to a full rainfall estimation.
The same gauge archive that backs our rainfall-estimation service. We mirror BoM AWS rainfall, BoM Water Data Online, river-rain network feeds from state agencies, and DPIRD's Western Australia stations, with quality flags preserved. Pick an area and a window, and the extractor queries that archive, plots whatever it finds, and lets you download or save the result.
Because the extractor is read-only against the archive, results are immediate. There's no build step, no queue, no waiting.
Two days of rainfall over Canberra's inner north that put Sullivans Creek over its banks. Open the extractor view and you'll see every gauge that recorded rain in the box, with event totals, time-series and downloadable CSV. Compare it side-by-side with the full gauge-corrected estimation project to see what the estimation pipeline adds on top of the raw gauge picture.
Anywhere in Australia where there are reporting gauges. AWS stations cover the BoM network nationally, Water Data Online adds state hydrology gauges (densest in NSW, VIC, QLD, ACT), the river-rain network adds local-government and irrigation telemetry, and DPIRD adds Western Australia's farm-level network. Coverage in the inland and remote north is sparser, but the extractor will show you exactly what's there for the event you're interested in.
Hydrologists, flood modellers, water-resources engineers and insurance assessors using the extractor to scope an event before commissioning a full estimation. Researchers and PhD students doing event reconstruction. Council and catchment-management staff sanity-checking gauge coverage in their patch.
The Rainfall Extractor is part of Labs, our opt-in programme for paid subscribers. The feature is useful and we use it ourselves, but it's still polishing rough edges and we want the people running it to be the people who actively wanted it. Labs is included with any Pro or Personal subscription — if you're already subscribed, flip it on at /account → Labs. The sample on this page is open to everyone, no account needed.
The extractor shows you what the gauges measured. A full rainfall estimation fills the gaps between gauges using the radar, bias-corrects the result against those same gauges, and ships per-point time-series, area-averages and NetCDF grids ready for modelling. If you need defensible numbers for hydraulic modelling, design-storm work, insurance reconstruction or asset decisions, that's where to go.
Open the sample first to see the interface, then flip the Lab on (or subscribe) to start saving your own searches.
BoM AWS rainfall sensors, BoM Water Data Online rain gauges, river-rain network gauges from a range of state agencies and councils, and DPIRD's Western Australian network. Quality flags are preserved so you can see which readings are validated versus preliminary.
It depends on the gauge. BoM AWS rainfall goes back to the early 1990s for the oldest stations. Water Data Online coverage starts in the late 1990s for most active gauges. Some river-rain feeds go back further; others only have a few years. The extractor just shows whatever the archive has for the dates and area you pick.
The extractor shows you the gauges themselves. The estimation service takes those same gauges plus the radar and produces a continuous, gauge-corrected spatial grid you can drop into hydraulic modelling, insurance reconstruction or design-storm work. Different problems: use the extractor to find out what you have, use the estimation service to turn it into modelling-ready inputs.
Yes. Each extract has a read-only share URL you can send to a colleague or client. The sample on this page uses exactly that mechanism. Sharing is included once the Lab is enabled on your Pro or Personal account.
A CSV of every gauge in the current view, a ZIP with one CSV per gauge, and a GeoJSON of gauge locations plus event totals. Anything more involved (area-averages, NetCDF grids, QGIS project) lives on the full estimation side.
Pro and research accounts get 50 saved extracts each. Full-access accounts get effectively unlimited. The sample is open to everyone, account or not.
Labs is our opt-in programme for features that work but haven't graduated to the main interface yet. Labs features may change, regress, or be retired without notice, but we won't break anything load-bearing on a paid subscription — if a Lab is removed we either ship it properly elsewhere or write to you first. You enable / disable any Lab from /account → Labs.
If the extractor's not quite the right shape, send through what you're trying to answer and we'll point you to the right tool, the right service, or someone better placed than us.
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