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147.6 Westmoreland Station
Burketown Qld
108.0 Giles MO WA
99.4 Lawn Hill Gorge NP Burketown Qld
83.0 Weipa AP Qld
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Scattered
areas of heavy rain and thunderstorms forming on convergence lines within
the broad monsoonal trough over northern Australia produced some heavy gaugings
again today. An area of storms which developed overnight in the largely
uninhabited Great Sandy Desert area of NE WA gave Giles Meteorological
Office a remarkable 108mm in the 24 hours to 9am. This is the average rainfall
for the whole of summer at Giles. In the NT, Darwin experienced
local flooding when 95mm fell in a succession of storms between 9am and
6pm. In the Qld Channel Country, Winton, after a day without rain,
recorded 54mm between 3 and 9pm, bringing the town's 4-day total to 9am
Thursday to 275mm, only 75mm short of the station's monthly record for February.
And further evidence of yesterday's heavy rain around 9am in the Burketown
area came in today's 9am 24-hour reports, with Westmoreland Station, 150km
WNW of the town reporting 147.6 and Lawn Hill Gorge National Park, 150km
SW reporting 99.4.
The Stuart Highway, closed for a week by
flooding on the Finke, Palmer and Hugh Rivers south of Alice Springs,
reopened today. $1.5m has been allocated by the NT Government for emergency
repairs to flood damaged roads in the Centre, mostly to the west of the
Stuart Highway.
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