Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Sally Cutter said the rain would continue into next week due to a prolonged monsoonal trough which stretches west to meet a tropical low in the north Kimberly. The showers and storms will be concentrated across the Top End, with the Daly, Tiwi and northern Arnhem districts expected to attract significant rainfall.
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“We’re expecting these wet conditions to continue particularly with the squally showers coming in,” she said.“We’ll be getting really heavy showers racing through really quickly as they’re coming in from the west offshore.“The cyclone risk is staying low, mainly because the low that we were watching has continued to move west as expected and is now looking like it’s going to move offshore.”

Ms Cutter said rainfall was above average for January, with wet conditions expected to continue through until April. “The last couple of years have been very poor with seasons,” she said. “But this year with the La Nina we were expecting a much better wet season for as far as rainfall goes and this is what we’ve seen. “We’ve got the chance of seeing this sort of activity through to the end of the wet season but we probably won’t see it continuously.“We’ll have a burst then will ease off and then the monsoon will be reinvigorated and we’ll see another burst of this weather.”
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Ms Cutter said a decrease in wind strength along the Top End coast will have an impact on the potential for higher than usual spring tides. In some areas tides were observed at 10-30cm higher than the expected high tide point because of conditions. In the seven days to 9am on Friday, Channel Point recorded 363mm of rain, 357mm at Leanyer, 349mm at Darwin Hospital and 326mm Darwin Airport. In remote NT Wadeye totalled 293mm of rain, 252mm at Pirlangimpi Airport, 237mm at McCluer Island, 204mm at Croker Island Airport and 197mm at Upper Waterhouse.
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