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Good wet season for northern QLD

Ben Domensino, Wednesday April 23, 2014 - 12:01 AEST

Late wet-season rain has brought some of the heaviest falls since December to parts of Queensland's Gulf Country.

A trough over northern QLD being fed by moist easterly winds triggered the heaviest rain of the year to date.

Normanton collected 72mm, more than any daily total since the start of December and the heaviest for April since at least 2001. Nearby Burketown recorded 35mm, the heaviest for April in four years.

The latest rain brings Normanton's wet season rainfall total (October to April) up to 860mm, which is right on average for the last 13 years.

The wet season has been a good one elsewhere in northern Queensland, particularly over the western Peninsula.

Kowanyama Airport has seen over 2.2 metres of rain during the wet season, almost double the long term average and the wettest in over 100 years of records. More than half of this rain fell during the wettest February on record, while Tropical Cyclone Gillian provided a good amount in March.

Showers will continue across the Gulf Country today as the trough gradually weakens, before clearing this evening. Drier conditions from Thursday will see out the last week of the wet season for most of northern QLD.

- Weatherzone

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