Tuesday 16 December 2008

The Monsoon is HERE

If you have never lived in a monsoonal climate, it may not gel but if you have you will know what I mean. Weeks, and months of dry weather, lately a few storms and very hot and humid with quite trying still conditions.......and then........the wind starts blowing from the opposite direction.


We have had a light but insistent NW to W breeze over the past 2 days, and since Sunday, high cloud and overcast conditions with a little rain. From about lunchtime yesterday, the rain started. Around 70mm [ 3 inches] since then overnight.


And it is still raining gently, but VERY insistently. I was going to do some serious flying today in a light aircraft, but only got as far as a flight around the airport before the weather closed in, earlier today. And it was very wet below.


The monsoon is HERE.


Overcast, cool [25C] - compared to the past few weeks of 33 - 36C, and a welcome change. Rain brings life and didn't the green frogs have a great time last night and today as well, singing very loudly about how great the rain is.


Current weather map :




The dense cloud across northern Australia is the monsoonal front.

photo off the national radar image from www.bom.gov.au at 1200 local time Darwin.

3 comments:

MsTypo said...

I hate monsoon season! We flew from Delhi to Sri Lanka during the height of hte season and i had never felt such horrible turbulence like that before or since.

Batten down the hatches the rainy season is upon us. :)

surfie999@gmail.com said...

Monsoon season is great.....the part before hand about 1-2 months, is the "crappy" season!
Most people see it as wet and dry....the local aborigines actually describe 6 seasons in their calendar, and that is actually reasonably accurate if you live here. You notice the subtle differences of each part of the season.
Thanks for commenting!

surfie999@gmail.com said...

And rain it has....70mm today and about another 50mm since this afternoon