The wet season could be on its way out as a pattern of generally dry weather is set to re-emerge for the end of March.
The main active region of the monsoon is further east of Australia, and is part of the reason for the formation of Tropical Cyclone Ului. Last week this monsoon trough funnelled moisture into a surface trough over Queensland, causing showers and storms.
That same surface trough then headed west, crossing the Northern Territory and is now situated over the NT/WA border region, causing some havoc.
Wattarka, in the southwestern corner of NT, has seen a two-day rainfall total of 134 millimetres, the wettest in 10 years.
The trough is still drawing in moist and unstable tropical air, with thunderstorms firing up a-plenty in the area as we speak.
Due to the high moisture content, flash flooding is likely where WA, SA, and NT intersect.
The Top End is also getting its fair share of the wet stuff. Cape Fourcroy has had a dump of eight millimetres in 10 minutes.
Rainfall should really be restricted to the NT coasts by Wednesday and, with no broad-scale tropical systems expected to come and beef things up, the rest of the season should remain fairly dry.
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