NOVEMBER 2024 will go on record as the wettest since 2010 for some areas of the Scenic Rim.

In other areas where available records only date back to around 2002, it is the wettest November in more than two decades.

Remarkably for the western Scenic Rim town of Harrisville, November 2024 beat all falls for the last month of Spring since records were first kept in 1887.

As we reported in our last edition, the rainfall event which included a number of severe storms starting on November 10 and followed by a week of showers pushed the falls beyond the average for the month.

However, the November average was left well behind after the rainfall on Saturday and Sunday (November 29 and 30) was added in.

The highest falls for the two days, according to the Bureau of Meteorology records, occurred on Wilson’s Peak at the head of the Teviot (127mm or 5in), Tamborine (73 mm or 2.9in), Canungra (73mm or 2.9in) and Boonah (71mm or 2.8in).

Wilson’s Peak also topped the falls for the month with 363mm (14.3in) recorded. The record for the last two decades at Wilson’s Peak was in 2010 when 577mm (22.7in) fell during the month.

Working our way across the region, rainfall totals in November 2024 were:

• Carneys Creek – 292mm (11.5in)

• Boonah – 276mm (10.9in)

• Harrisville – 334mm (13.1mm)

• Kalbar – 279mm (11in)

• Beaudesert – 292mm (11.5in)

• Canungra – 274mm (10.8in)

• Tamborine – 274mm (10.8in)

• Tamborine Mt – 362mm (14.2in)

Those records indicate that it was the wettest November for more than two decades for Beaudesert, Canungra, Tamborine and of course Harrisville.