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Speaker 1: Just looking at the Catherine riverbridge camera right now, it

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Speaker 1: looks like it's at about sixteen point five right now.

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Speaker 1: Major level is seventeen point five, so that is expected

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Speaker 1: at some stage today. Keep us up to date if

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Speaker 1: you're in Catherine and you want to let us know

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Speaker 1: what you can see. But we're heading across right now

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Speaker 1: and catching up with the Bureau of Meteorology and joining

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Speaker 1: us is Jess Lingard.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Jess, Good morning, Katie, Jess.

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Speaker 1: I tell you what we spoke about there potentially being

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Speaker 1: quite a bit of rain, and it's happened. Catherine all

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Speaker 1: lies on Catherine at the moment as those river levels rise,

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Speaker 1: and they've been smashed with rain in the last twenty four.

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Speaker 2: Hours, so honestly, they absolutely have. There's been some incredible

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Speaker 2: rainfall totals. I don't think any of us quite expected

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Speaker 2: that much. Doris Vale, crossing along the Daily River has

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Speaker 2: picked up in the last twenty four hours, has picked

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Speaker 2: up two one hundred and sixty millimeters of rainfall. So

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Speaker 2: that's just to the west of Catherine. A lot of

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Speaker 2: other places are a handful of other places that have

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Speaker 2: all seen over two hundred millimeters, including along the Stuart

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Speaker 2: Highway and then loads. You scroll down the list of

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Speaker 2: places that have all had triple digit falls and they

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Speaker 2: are all around that sort of southern Daily around the

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Speaker 2: Catherine district through the last twenty four hours, so a

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Speaker 2: lot of rainfall. We do still have a severe weather

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Speaker 2: warning at the moment for heavy rainfall. That is mostly

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Speaker 2: for the Daily district, but it does include parts of

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Speaker 2: the Carpenteria and the Arnham districts. It does not include

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Speaker 2: Catherine at this stage. The heavier falls are to the

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Speaker 2: northwest at the moment, but there still shower activity around Catherine. Now,

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Speaker 2: as you mentioned, that has had a significant impact on

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Speaker 2: the rivers around the top end. We do have eleven

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Speaker 2: warnings out across the across the territory. The large majority

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Speaker 2: of them are flood warnings. So we do have a

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Speaker 2: major flood warning for the Catherine River. We've got a

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Speaker 2: major flood warning for the Daily River, a major flood

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Speaker 2: warning for the Waterhouse River, and a flood warning for

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Speaker 2: the Roper River, the Nicholson River, and we also have

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Speaker 2: one more major flood warning for the Georgina River and

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Speaker 2: Air Creek. So pick A River there's probably a flood

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Speaker 2: warning out for it at the moment if not. The

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Speaker 2: rest of the area is covered under flood watches. To

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Speaker 2: get the latest information, please head to the bureau's website.

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Speaker 2: You just need to click on the Northern Territory and

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Speaker 2: it'll take you to the warnings and you can see

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Speaker 2: all of the warnings listed there. The big one is,

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Speaker 2: of course, I think the major warning for the Catherine

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Speaker 2: River flooding above the March two thousand flood levels are expect,

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Speaker 2: did it Catherine Bridge? From later today? I've been watching

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Speaker 2: the catching the webcam on the bridge. You're watching it

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Speaker 2: to creep a little higher, So please take care if

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Speaker 2: you are in that region. There are a few road

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Speaker 2: closures as well, so if you are going to be

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Speaker 2: traveling around, please make sure that your way ahead is

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Speaker 2: clear and please, please please do not drive through flooded roadways.

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Speaker 2: You are a metal box filled with air wearing four

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Speaker 2: rubber floats. It does not take much water at all

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Speaker 1: Very good advice, now, Jess. In terms of I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you go on the rain radar at the moment,

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Speaker 1: lot of rain about. It looks like we've sort of

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Speaker 1: got a massive amount coming for us in the next

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Speaker 1: hour or so. Are we expecting the same level of

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Speaker 1: rainfall is what's been experienced in other parts of the

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Speaker 2: Look, I don't think their risk is as high as

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Speaker 2: we move further north, but I'm not going to say

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Speaker 2: no either. I'm having a look at the rainfall expectations

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Speaker 2: tropical low, the more likely we are to see that

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Speaker 2: heavier fall. So you know, another two to three hundred

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I absolutely agree with you and just encourage everybody

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Speaker 1: the moment, Jess, I mean, obviously the forecast is it's

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Speaker 1: But I mean, how long are we expecting this huge

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Speaker 2: So we should slowly start to see things easing across

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Speaker 2: Still going to be a wet day on Sunday, though,

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Speaker 2: going to say much improved from what's falling from the sky.

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Speaker 2: We are still going to be dealing with the flood

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Speaker 2: ramifications of this heavy rainfall for probably at least a week,

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Speaker 2: quick resolution in terms of flooding, jess.

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Speaker 1: Are we expecting as well? I mean, like, for all

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Speaker 2: Wind Look, the winds don't look too bad at the moment,

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Speaker 2: So I would think that, you know, generally speaking, winds

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Speaker 2: Once we get into next week, I think we're more

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Speaker 2: in They're clear, Jess.

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Speaker 1: I mean you've really talked us through the advice for

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, honestly that that is going to be the

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Speaker 2: main thing. If you've got the Bureaus app or the

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Speaker 2: Secure NTE app, those are going to be your go

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Speaker 2: to sites for getting information about what's going on. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: continue to listen to the radio as well throughout today

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Speaker 2: and across the weekend. But your safety is your responsibility

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Speaker 2: and just don't risk it. You know, if you're going

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Speaker 2: to be driving around, please nothing is worth risking your

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Speaker 2: And you know, it can wait till next week, whatever

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Speaker 2: it is, it can wait.

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Speaker 1: Spot on, Jessling guard really good to talk to you.

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Speaker 1: I'm not here on Monday, but it might be that

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Speaker 1: Sarah Pasley, who's filling in, is keen to have a

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Speaker 2: Good plan. Yeah, definitely I'd be having to chat so

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Speaker 2: look forward to it.

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Speaker 1: Then, lovely, Thank you so much, Jess, really appreciate your

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Speaker 2: Thank you. Stay safe.