00:00There wasn't a cloud in the sky in Darwin today.
00:05Well, that's not quite true.
00:07But it was hot and sunny, hardly the conditions you'd expect of a monsoon.
00:12Right?
00:13This monsoon was probably down the inactive end of the range of the monsoons, but all
00:18the monsoons are just subtly different.
00:20If you feel like you haven't had much relief from the heat and humidity, you're not alone.
00:25Pretty dry, hasn't turned up, they call it the no-soon.
00:29The non-soon, actually just an inactive monsoon.
00:32You can have either an active monsoon where it's raining the whole time, or an inactive
00:36monsoon where you just get these little squall lines of showers coming through.
00:41And we're about to see the conditions get a whole lot stickier.
00:44We get a monsoon onset, the monsoon trough then retreats back north over the Arafura
00:49Sea and leaves us in build-up-like conditions.
00:53And this is what we're seeing happening at the moment.
00:55It's been very dry.
00:56I haven't looked up the stats.
00:58We did, and while we may not have seen the glorious downpours of wet seasons gone by,
01:03the BOM says rainfall for Darwin is around average.
01:07We just may not have noticed it, because much of the storm activity has occurred while we're
01:11sound asleep.
01:12Further south, Catherine is on track for a wetter-than-usual start to the year.
01:17An intense storm cell triggering flood warnings over the weekend.
01:20The river sitting at around 11 metres at the town's main bridge.
01:25If we don't get any more rain in the catchment area, that will allow the conditions to ease.
01:31Monsoonal bursts tend to occur in 30-60 day intervals, meaning we're unlikely to get another
01:36one until March.
01:38So with these hot and sticky conditions only expected to increase, the advice from some
01:44is to try and make the most of it.
01:46What's it like in Canada at this time of year?
01:49Minus 30.
01:51This is great.
01:52I love it.
01:53Turns out, the grass may just be greener right here at home.
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