Top End Wet Season 2021-2022

From our local weather FB Page...
"Good morning trendsetters..
Holy moly hasn’t that been a long 48 hours or so.
What I got for Christmas and what I needed turned out to be total opposites... a pair of ugg boots, a woollen jacket and a new liver would have been appropriate I feel as Hotel Hannibal was booked out for the best part.
Cold, yep cold is what long time Territorians are telling me and I tend to agree.
Yesterday wasn’t much better than Christmas Day and today looks better but only marginally.
Rain has been extensive and heavy over much of the northern Top End and now throughout the central and south west Top End, as our monsoon with an associated deep low crossed the coast on Christmas night.
The low has become a little stubborn over the last 12 hours or so and going by radar, satellite and Doppler returns it’s actually tracked a little further on West overnight. It appears to be near Peppimenarti as we speak.
The general consensus is that it will track east and that should start to happen today, but the longer the system stays put, the models start to get a bit jumpy ... and that’s when the fighting starts 😝
The satellite shows a very nice looking monsoonal cloud band and some BIG cells embedded in the thick cloud. Quite a mass of storms well north of the Kimberley caught my attention first thing this morning 🤔
So today looks much the same as yesterday with cool cloudy conditions and showers and rain periods easing during the morning about the NW Top End before getting a boost and redeveloping during the afternoon. The north Coast looks set to continue getting heavy showers and monsoonal squalls, esp the Arnhem coast and that includes our friends in Gove 🙄
Continuing showers, storms and rain areas near the vicinity of the low.
Showers and storms will be gusty and of course localised heavy falls will continue.
A number of warnings are still out with flood watches across the Top End and a severe weather warning for most of the Top End as well.
So seems like a great day to stay off the roads and put the kettle on. .. Did some one say the cricket was on 🤔
Have a great day. .. will chat soon 👍

4 consecutive days below 30c.....rarely gets any better than this. The sun has made an appearance this morning, first shadows cast in 5 days.

Those QLD bastards have stolen our rain !

From a BOM employee over on Gove Peninsular
"Another example for the Access C model archive. This was its prediction from this afternoon's run. It's crazy how good and accurate it is when it comes to storms!"

And I just smelled some rain before I looked outside and this has shown up outta nowhere 1

Just when you think it can't get any shittier outside in the sun, Darwin produces a 35c/26c dp at 2.00pm. Friggen awful outside, just done a dump run with a trailer load of palm fronds....had jump under the like warm shower....yes the water comes outta the cold tap luke warm as the night mins only drop to 28c !

Bit of activity over the base of the Top End, one small cell to the east of Darwin.

This is a huge storm system covering a large area of the Top End. The rings represent 10 klm distance from the Airport, so the blue rings are 30klm out.
Can hear distant thunder from home.

Jeez...don't really wanna see a pic like this at 5.00pm on a January afternoon !