00:01From grazing pastures to an inland sea,
00:05hundreds of millimetres of rain over a week and a half turning Tobermory Station into a sodden island.
00:12The cattle station manages airlifted to safety on Friday night.
00:16For weeks, Central Australia has been battered by rain from the Simpson to the Barkley down to Alice Springs.
00:23We don't usually see this amount of moisture hanging around for as long as we have seen in the last
00:29couple of years.
00:30From Sunday, the Bureau of Meteorology says those widespread totals are finally set to ease,
00:37with thunderstorms expected to stick around.
00:39Authorities are warning Red Centre residents not to become complacent, despite sunny weather.
00:45Just because you look outside at the moment, don't put your sandbags in the bottom of the chook pen at
00:50the moment.
00:50Hang on to them because there's more weather on the way over Sunday.
00:53In Darwin, westerly winds are predicted to intensify,
00:56while early next week there's a low chance a tropical cyclone could develop off the Gulf of Carpentaria.
01:03If tropical low 31U does move inland as a low pressure system,
01:09we'll be watching areas of rainfall and increased flood risk over the next week or so.
01:14A wetter than average wet season and it's not over yet.
01:18DUMPS
01:20DUMPS
01:21DUMPS
01:23CLASH
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