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Speaker 1: Joining us on the line right now is senior meteorologist

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Speaker 1: Rebecca Patrick from the Bureau of Meteorology.

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Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Rebecca.

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Speaker 3: Good morning Katie.

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Speaker 2: Great to have you on the show. Rebecca.

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Speaker 1: I know last time we spoke, I think you said

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Speaker 1: we're in a monsoon break.

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Speaker 2: Does that continue at the moment.

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Speaker 3: Yes, that's right. We have continued with that sort of

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Speaker 3: weather across the weekend. We've had a few significant thunderstorms,

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Speaker 3: mainly south of Darwin, but did affect parts of the

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Speaker 3: rural area across the weekend, and expecting that sort of

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Speaker 3: conditions to continue today. So yeah, still got a bit

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Speaker 3: of an easterly flow across the top end with afternoon

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Speaker 3: shouts and storms expected, But for Darwin today it's looking

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Speaker 3: a little bit less likely. If anyone's been looking at

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Speaker 3: the sky, it's a lot of blue sky around today,

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Speaker 3: and if we get something, it's more likely to be

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Speaker 3: late in the day overnight perhaps.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It was interesting yesterday when that bit of rain came through,

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Speaker 1: or a bit of a storm I suppose came through

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Speaker 1: one side of the of the sky looked as I

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Speaker 1: was still pretty sunny, and then the rain began and

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Speaker 1: I thought, oh, hang, on a second, what's happening here?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, yesterday was very isolated, just really one storm

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Speaker 3: that popped up over the CBD and over the harbor

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Speaker 3: and the rest of Darwin missed out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was nice. It's always nice when that bit

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Speaker 2: of rain arrives. Rebecca. What can we expect in Catherine today?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for Catherine as well, maybe a little bit hit

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Speaker 3: and miss as well. Expecting a top of about thirty

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Speaker 3: six degrees in Catherine today, so reasonably warm, but only

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Speaker 3: a slight chance that that might get a shower of

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Speaker 3: storm today and it would probably be pretty light on

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Speaker 3: end terms that Sharon storm activity for the next few days, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, And so what is the forecast for the remainder

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Speaker 1: of the week, obviously for Darwin but also surrounds and

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Speaker 1: to Catherine.

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Speaker 3: Yes, so for Darwin, probably for the next few days

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Speaker 3: we'll see a lot of sunny skies, maybe getting a

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Speaker 3: shower of storm overnight, but yeah, just a slight chance

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Speaker 3: of that Tuesday and Wednesday, better chance on Thursday, with

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Speaker 3: a little bit of moisture coming back in for Catherine

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Speaker 3: as well, it's going to be pretty slim pickings for

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Speaker 3: the next couple of days. We're just seeing a lot

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Speaker 3: of dry air coming in across the top end, so

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Speaker 3: probably not until later in the week there might be

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Speaker 3: a better chance of shows and storms.

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Speaker 1: Well, Rebecca Patrick, it's always great to catch up with you,

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Speaker 1: and no warnings or anything we should be aware of

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Speaker 1: this morning before I let you go.

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Speaker 3: Currently no warnings, but yeah, if you are out and

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Speaker 3: about in particularly South Done, there is a risk that

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Speaker 3: we might have severe thunderstorm warnings today with some damaging

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Speaker 3: winds with those storms all right.

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Speaker 2: We'll keep a close eye on things.

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Speaker 1: Rebecca Patrick, great to speak to you, Thanks for your time.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Katie,