Widespread soaking rain set to cross the country

A beautiful rain event is brewing in the northwest, set to spread down through South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania, then up into NSW and southern Queensland. 

The following rain map could not be more different from the past weeks and months!

No more rain along the coast and ranges and nothing inland - we now finally have a new weather pattern that lets the rain spread through, thanks to a juicy northwest cloudband.

Potential rainfall over the next week (from Friday 20th to Friday 27th September) 

What we like about this system

• a large part of the country is projected to get a drink
• this rain system is featured on every single weather model, and has been featured for several updates, increasing our confidence that something big will occur
• the drivers of our weather are in a phase that encourages a weather system like this 

What could go wrong?

• the rain doesn’t reach the eastern states until the middle to end of next week
• that is still a long way away in terms of weather timelines (currently days 6 to 9 in the outlook) and subject to downgrades (or upgrades)
• some models have huge rainfall projections, but one of the models currently has only light falls (see this represented in the rainfall range in your Jane’s Weather AI Forecast) 

There is a lot to like about this one and most likely we will see good, soaking rain affecting many… but given the nature of the timing, we are not quite at complete confidence levels just yet. 

If you’re in the southwest of the country and looking for rain, this isn’t the system to bring it to you. But models are hinting at a second widespread rain system to follow, that tracks across the country and doesn’t skip the southwest - beginning there on about Friday next week at this stage. 

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