The rainfall analyses and associated maps use data contained in
the Bureau of Meteorology climate database, the Australian Data
Archive for Meteorology (ADAM). The analyses are initially
produced automatically from real-time data with limited quality
control. They are intended to provide a general overview of
rainfall across Australia as quickly as possible after the
observations are received. What is rainfall? According to the
American Meteorological Society's Glossary of Meteorology,
rainfall is the amount of precipitation of any type (including
the liquid equivalent of frozen hydrometeors such as hail and
snow); usually taken as that amount measured by means of a rain
gauge in millimeters of liquid water depth over a specified
period of time. For Australia, rainfall is typically measured
for a 24-hour period. A more accurate term would be
precipitation or precipitation amount. However, the broad use of
'rainfall' is firmly established in meteorology. Daily rainfall
maps Daily rainfall for the current day i