This years Wet is a big one
Submitted: Monday, Apr 03, 2006 at 21:58
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For those planning trips to the Top End and
Kimberley these maps from the BoM may be of interest. March rainfall has been at record breaking levels on top of a
well above average rainfall since Oct 1st. See maps below by copying the address then pasting it into your address bar.
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And the second one.
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Perhaps Anne from Drysdale Station might like to comment. Cheers
Reply By: Anne from Drysdale River Station - Tuesday, Apr 04, 2006 at 22:40
Tuesday, Apr 04, 2006 at 22:40
Hi all,
Yes it is a big wet out here as
well but remember that these
places are hundreds of km's apart and this time
Wyndham & even
Kununurra copped much more than normal. That big low that became the cyclone just sat almost over them for days.
For March 06 we had 382 mm but in Feb 1979 for example we had 549 mm, in March 2000 we had 449 mm. All depends where it falls from each low that brings the heavy rain.
Talking about rain one place in the
Kimberley compared to another is sometimes like talking about weather in
Sydney compared to say
Canberra.
We got a lot over the whole month but as we only got the edge of that low we didn't get any massive falls that were way way above normal.
But yes the overall total is high this year and after the half job we got last wet season the country needed it as
well.
I gather that some
places down the road towards
Derby have more than normal also. It rained here again last night, only another 30 mm but what happens with the road etc depends on how long it keeps doing that for. Did you notice all the activity still happening up over the Territory, we may end up with some of that down here yet as
well.
The radar shows big rain up round
Timber Creek tonight.
I gave up years back trying to guess dates when this road will open !!!!
Always end up being wrong, so now we just accept the fact that it will most likely be between the start of April and the end of May most years. One year it was the 9 th June and none of us need that to happen again.
cheers, Anne
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