Forecast rainfall on the long roads in and out of Birdsville — see rain coming before it cuts them, alongside the official road reports and weather warnings.
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Birdsville itself stays dry — it sits on high ground, and locals will tell you the town doesn't flood, the roads do. The long unsealed approaches are what rain cuts: a wet Channel Country turns graded dirt to mud and can close the way in and out for days, sometimes weeks.
This reads the weather model's rainfall at a point on each main road and at the town, a couple of days back and a week ahead — so you can see rain coming before it strands you or the supply truck. It doesn't decide whether a road is open; the official road reports and weather warnings do that.
The model expects almost no rain on the roads over the next 7 days.
| Road | Last 2 days | Next 7 days |
|---|---|---|
| Birdsville · townThe town's own point — rain here on the local roads and airstrip. | 0 mmalmost no rain | 0 mmalmost no rain |
| Birdsville Track (at Mungerannie)Roughly midway up the Track from Marree, in South Australia — a read on rain over the southern approach. | 0 mmalmost no rain | 0 mmalmost no rain |
| Windorah road (near Betoota)About 170 km east near the old Betoota pub — the eastern approach through the Diamantina channels. | 0 mmalmost no rain | 0 mmalmost no rain |
| Bedourie road (at Bedourie)North toward Bedourie and Mount Isa — rain over the Eyre Creek country the road crosses. | 0 mmalmost no rain | 0 mmalmost no rain |
Live · . Rainfall from the Open-Meteo forecast model (CC BY 4.0).
These are estimates from a weather model on a coarse grid, not rain-gauge measurements, and they are not a road-closure warning. Whether a road is open is decided by the official road reports and weather warnings below — a road can be cut with little rain, or hold through a lot. Once a road is wet it can stay cut for days after the rain stops.
Birdsville is on high ground and does not go under. What floods is the Channel Country all around it — the Diamantina, Eyre Creek and the Georgina spread out across the flat and put the unsealed roads under water or turn them to mud. Even a modest fall can make a graded track impassable, and a big wet can cut every road for weeks. Rain up the catchments also feeds the rivers, so heavy falls at these points can mean both a cut road now and a river rise heading for town in the days after.
If the roads are showing rain, or rain is forecast, treat the trip as one that might not happen on schedule — check the official road reports below, carry extra fuel, water and food, and be ready to wait it out at either end. Once a road is wet it can stay cut for days after the rain stops, while the surface dries. This tool is the early look; the road authorities have the current call, and the town's river gauges show what's already coming down.