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Grass becoming greener on other side of Dog Fence

Brett Dutschke, Monday December 15, 2014 - 15:09 AEDT

For those living in southeastern Australia, this is the time of year when the grass becomes greener on the other side of the fence, the 5,500km-long Dog Fence, and it looks like happening the week.

The Dog Fence (or Dingo Fence) which runs across southern Queensland and northern South Australia, protecting sheep in the south from dingoes and other dogs in the north, will this week prove to separate wet from dry.

During the coming week, showers and thunderstorms will bring widespread rainfall to central and northern Australia, more than 50 millimetres-worth to some places.

Generally, it won't be enough rain to bring any area out of drought, but will bring some life to the region. Dusty dams and rivers will begin to fill, pastures will turn green and flowers will grow, making cattle and bees happier.

A low pressure trough is becoming near stationary, allowing moisture to increase in the atmosphere, causing showers and storms in central Australia and central-west and northwest Queensland each day for about a week.

Uluru has a chance of a thunderstorm each day from early this week to early next week, bringing not just rainfall relief but cooling relief after having reached 40 degrees in each of the past three days. From this Thursday to next Wedneday it should only reach the mid-to-high 30s at the most while gaining a likely 50mm.

Unfortunately for some north of the Fence, the coming rainfall will not hug the fence line. Parts of the Maranoa, Warrego and Channel Country in southwest Queensland and the pastoral districts in northern SA should only see less than five millimetres.

- Weatherzone

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