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Speaker 1: Let's head across right now and find out what's happening

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Speaker 1: with the weather. We know there are plenty of locations

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Speaker 1: across the Northern Territory at the moment keeping a really

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Speaker 1: close eye on things and joining us from the Bureau

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Speaker 1: of Meteorology. It's Jess Linguard. Good morning, Jess, Good morning, Jess.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty wet around the place today, isn't it. I

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Speaker 1: know that in Central Australia and the Barklay they're keeping

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Speaker 1: a really close eye on things.

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Speaker 2: They certainly are. Yeah, there is a huge severe weather

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Speaker 2: warning that covers four states and territories, so parts of NT, Queensland,

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Speaker 2: South Australia, and New South Wales. For this sort of

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Speaker 2: really big broad system, it's a sort of a broad

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Speaker 2: low pressure system. It's got some damaging winds with it,

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Speaker 2: and it's got some heavy, too intense rainfall underneath it

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Speaker 2: as well. So that weather warning is out now and

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Speaker 2: likely to remain current for a little while, maybe through

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Speaker 2: into tomorrow and even into parts of Wednesday as well.

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Speaker 2: As this sort of very slow moving low pressure system

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Speaker 2: and troughline, you know, really take their time to clear

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Speaker 2: out of the territory. So by the time we get

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Speaker 2: into the second half of this week, we should be

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Speaker 2: looking at some much more improved conditions. But obviously all

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Speaker 2: this rainfall is having an impact on the way that

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Speaker 2: we live and work in the territory, including potentially some

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Speaker 2: impacts to transport links north and south.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you're spot on, and so a lot of

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Speaker 1: us are really kind of waiting and watching to see

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Speaker 1: what happens. What about I know there've been some concern

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Speaker 1: that there could be further flooding in Alice Springs as well.

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Speaker 1: We're going to talk a little bit more about that

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Speaker 1: this hour. But what's the situation there at the moment.

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Speaker 2: So Alice Springs is just outside of the warning area,

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Speaker 2: but they have had some significant rainfall in the last

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Speaker 2: twenty four hours. So Gemtree Park, just to the north

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Speaker 2: northeast of Alice Springs has picked up eighty seven millimeters

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Speaker 2: up to nine am this morning, other sites around their

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Speaker 2: voice picking up fifty four millimeters, parts of the Todd

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Speaker 2: River picking up another fifty millimeters. So it has been

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Speaker 2: a fairly wet time. And obviously, even though Alice Springs

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Speaker 2: itself isn't in the warning area, it is still raining there.

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Speaker 2: You can still see those showers on the radar. They're

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Speaker 2: just not expected to be severe showers. But obviously you

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Speaker 2: know that whole area all feeds into the todd and

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Speaker 2: the other rivers around the catchment, and that is going

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Speaker 2: to have an impact over the next sort of few days,

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Speaker 2: the next week or so.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's going to be an interesting time for us

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Speaker 1: up here in the top end. Jess what can we

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Speaker 1: expect over the coming days.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's a little bit quieter at the moment.

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Speaker 2: The flooding along the daily seems to have receded a

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Speaker 2: little bit. Communities are getting back home now, no longer

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Speaker 2: cut off. We've got some scattered showers and some isolated

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Speaker 2: thunderstorms around the top end today. Looking at today in

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Speaker 2: comparison with the rest of the week, maybe today a

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Speaker 2: bit of a quieter day. It's all relative obviously, but

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Speaker 2: starting to get a little more activity across the top end.

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Speaker 2: From tomorrow onwards we start to see more showers and

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Speaker 2: the potential for more thunderstorms as well. In terms of

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Speaker 2: our temperatures, thirty two seems to be the go to

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Speaker 2: number today, Darwin heading for thirty two degrees, as is

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Speaker 2: Howard Springs and Cooler Linger Nunamar going for sorry thirty

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Speaker 2: three degrees and Catherine today a top of thirty four degrees.

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Speaker 1: Now, Jess, I don't often give your homework, but i'd

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Speaker 1: certain I stillwards the end of the of last week

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Speaker 1: whether we were having like a better wet season than

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Speaker 1: what we have in previous years. And I know you

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Speaker 1: have gone and had a bit of a closer look.

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Speaker 2: I have. Yes, I've pulled up our cumulative rainfall going

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Speaker 2: back all the way to the first of October, the

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Speaker 2: start of the wet season. The good news is we're

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Speaker 2: above average. The better news is we're smashing last year.

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Speaker 2: Last year we sort of really hugged that average curve.

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Speaker 2: I remember chatting to you being like, are we above average?

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Speaker 2: We below average all season long. So this time last

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Speaker 2: year we were sitting at about twelve hundred millimeters of rainfall,

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Speaker 2: that's about the average. This year we're sitting just over

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Speaker 2: fifteen hundred, so an extra sort of three and three

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Speaker 2: hundred and fifty millimeters this year. I think a lot

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Speaker 2: of that we can probably attribute to Feena. When that

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Speaker 2: came past late last year.

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Speaker 1: She certainly got things moving for us, including.

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Speaker 2: My tree out of my yard.

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Speaker 1: But she it did make a big difference, and it

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Speaker 1: sort of felt like just a I don't know, like

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Speaker 1: I know, the wet season, the enormous amount of rain

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Speaker 1: that we've had hasn't been ideal for everybody in terms

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Speaker 1: of that flooding, but it's felt more like what a

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Speaker 1: wet season should I suppose?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so, I mean since December, they're sort of the

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Speaker 2: accumulation has followed our sort of typical curve of you know,

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Speaker 2: how we might expect rainfall to grow across the season.

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Speaker 2: There was just that really significant jump when Fena came through,

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Speaker 2: which has kept us well above average this year. Now,

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Speaker 2: not every year can be above average, that's not how

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Speaker 2: averages work. So we will enjoy the wet, wet season

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Speaker 2: that we've got at the moment, knowing that next year

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Speaker 2: or even following years after that, we may not be

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Speaker 2: as lucky exactly.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right. Well, it is always lovely to catch

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Speaker 1: up with you, Jesse Ling Guard from the Bureau of Meteorology.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for giving us that background as well.

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Speaker 2: You're so welcome, Katie, have a wonderful Monday you too.

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Speaker 1: Thank you