Rain on the Range
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Where Maleny's wet season stands — the last 30 days against the long-term average, and the week ahead, in plain language.
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Where Maleny's wet season stands — the last 30 days against the long-term average, and the week ahead, in plain language.
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Maleny sits high on the Blackall Range and catches a lot of weather — around 2,000 mm of rain a year. It's a rainfall picture, not a flood warning — for warnings, always check the Bureau of Meteorology and Get Ready Maleny.
It is the drier months — cooler and generally drier, though the range still gets showers and fog. The dry end of these months overlaps the bushfire season (roughly July to February).
| Season | When | |
|---|---|---|
| Storm and wet season | 1 November – 30 April | |
| Drier months | 1 May – 31 October | now |
These are broad seasons for a subtropical range town; in any given year the wet can start late or run on. Treat the boundaries as a guide, not a rule.
That is noticeably more rain than is typical for these dates.
3 of the next 7 days are forecast to bring 1 mm of rain or more, with about 6 mm in total (typical for this week: 13 mm).
| Day | Rain | Chance of rain |
|---|---|---|
| Wed, 26 Aug (today) | 1 mm | 71% |
| Thu, 27 Aug | 0 mm | 4% |
| Fri, 28 Aug | 0 mm | 2% |
| Sat, 29 Aug | 0 mm | 45% |
| Sun, 30 Aug | 2 mm | 80% |
| Mon, 31 Aug | 2 mm | 88% |
| Tue, 1 Sept | 1 mm | 67% |
On the range, heavy rain brings flash flooding in the creek areas and around Obi Obi Creek, and fog and downpours make the single range road dangerous. Get Ready Maleny lists storms, floods and heatwaves among the town's main hazards alongside bushfire.
Many properties around Maleny rely on rainwater tanks, so a long dry spell is felt directly. The rain that falls on and around the range also feeds Baroon Pocket Dam, 7 km north, which supplies much of the Sunshine Coast's drinking water.
Updated 26 August at 10:06 am. Rain figures are weather-model estimates for the area around Maleny, on the Blackall Range — useful for comparing periods, not exact bucketfuls; one valley can catch a storm the next one misses. The “typical” figures are 1991–2020 averages from the same modelling family (ERA5), so the comparison is like-for-like. Weather data by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).
More rain than normal
Last 30 days: 44 mm · normal 30 mm
3 rainy days expected this week