00:00Darwinites awoke to an unexpected sound this morning, the pitter-patter of rain coming
00:08as a shock to the dry season system.
00:11We usually expect like no rain for nine months and then we get this, I woke up this morning
00:17and I had no idea what was going on, my partner thought that our aircon had broken.
00:21It's a dry season but it's still raining, but not bad, it's very good, I feel so cold.
00:27A shower is not entirely unheard of for this time of year, May is a transitional month but
00:34the scale of the rain is unprecedented.
00:37For May it's a little bit unusual because we've come out of the wet season so we're no longer
00:41getting the big monsoon bursts or the tropical lows coming on shore and we haven't quite
00:46got into that winter pattern where we do normally see these north-west cloud bands.
00:50The sheer amount of rain that's fallen, breaking records in multiple locations.
00:56It was not only Catherine's wettest day in May ever, it was also the wettest day overall
01:02since December 2003.
01:04Tyndall recorded 179.8 millimetres which was a record for May.
01:10The previous record for May was only 19.6 millimetres.
01:14So the rainfall at this Fort Catherine area was really, really intense.
01:20Further north, the rain put a dampener on dry season festivities.
01:25Some artists taking part in the street art festival forced to put down the paint this
01:29morning, others got lucky.
01:32Oh my gosh, I was laying in bed thinking like should I go but then I decided to come and
01:38luckily this wall, completely undercover, everything out there was just absolutely drenched.
01:44By midday the rain had cleared and it's looking set to stay this way as dry season conditions
01:49return over the weekend.
01:51There is a possibility that a rain band in WA could cross into the NT later next week.
01:58A wet start to the dry.
02:00A wet start to the dry.
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