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ADELAIDE'S Wettest 5 days in years and it's not over

The brunt of South Australia's wild, wet April weather has passed but there are still more showers forecast this week.

Rain will persist in southern areas most of the week and the Bureau of Meteorology predicts 15mm could fall in Adelaide by midnight on Friday.

The 62mm recorded in Adelaide in the past five days was the wettest period experienced in the metropolitan area in three and a half years.

If the showers forecast in Adelaide today and tomorrow do occur, it would be the first seven-day stretch of rain in April since 1995.

The last time Adelaide received seven wet days in a row was in September, 2004.

The Weather Company meteorologist Brett Dutschke said the rain forecast would not be like that experienced over the weekend. "It might just be a millimetre or two every day or so," he said.

Bureau of Meteorology senior meteorologist Brett Gage said two weak fronts tomorrow and Friday would bring some showers.

He said the weekend forecast for mainly fine weather could include a light shower or two in some areas. "We're certainly through the worst, or the best of the weather I'd call it," he said.

Northern agricultural areas could receive up to 5mm by Friday night and the Mount Lofty Ranges up to 20mm. Since the rain began last Thursday, Woodhouse in the Adelaide Hills has had the most rain, recording 148mm.

State Emergency Service state duty officer Graeme Wynwood said volunteers had responded to more than 450 calls for help since lastThursday.

He said 93 calls were received yesterday morning, most after the heavy rain in Adelaide soon after sunrise.

Most calls were made for help with trees falling on houses and flooding. "It really was an isolated surprise and was a lot more severe in the rain that fell in that short period of time and the wind associated with it," he said.

Department for Environment and Heritage Living Beaches project manager Rob Tucker said high tides had done little permanent damage to Adelaide's coastline.

"Beach replenishment was in place and we had carried out some protection works in the last couple of weeks in places we thought were a bit vulnerable," he said.

"The important thing is the dune buffers were in place."

He said Saturday's weather was not a major storm and described it as a one in 13 year weather event.

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