Tropical Cyclone Alessia

[catsnknots]

WOW.. early start... stay safe... 

I hope everyone has their plans in place, looks like this might be another wet and story monsoonal season. 

A Cyclone WARNING is current for coastal areas from Kuri Bay to Point Stuart, including Darwin and the Tiwi Islands.

At 3:30 am CST [2:00 am WST] Tropical Cyclone Alessia, Category 1 was estimated to be
45 kilometres north northwest of Kalumburu and
505 kilometres west southwest of Darwin and
moving east northeast at 16 kilometres per hour.

Tropical Cyclone Alessia is a small system and moving close to the Kimberley coast.

http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDD20150.txt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkV1wch7Wsg

[kengillard]

we're having the biggest noisiest windiest heavy rain storm I've seen for ages!    rayyyyyyyyy

[ten*teeny*tiny*toes]

We had a whopping 267mm of rain overnight on Fri and in the early hours of Sat morning.

It took everyone by surprise and we woke up to flooding and road closures.

We all wanted the rain, but not dumped on us like that! 

[catsnknots]

I heard there was flash flooding in a few places up North... it did catch a lot by surprise as we have been so dry.... 

it is nice to have some rain though but I am not looking forward to the humidity. 

[ten*teeny*tiny*toes]

It's already quite humid up here, Catmad. Has been for a few weeks.
Slept well during the deluge, apart from the huge claps of thunder, as it was the coolest night in ages.
We were unlucky I think as the dumping of rain coincided with a high tide so there was nowhere for the water to go.
I do wonder, as always, what this wet season will bring.