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Isolated rainfall of up to 400mm predicted for Northern Territory as flood-watches current for all rivers
Narramore said ex-tropical cyclone Ellie has brought some very heavy rainfall to large parts of the Northern Territory since it crossed on Friday.
As it tracks slowly through the Timber Creek area, all the way down to Tennant Creek, it’s brought hundreds of millimetres of rain. That’s led to the closures of the Victorian Highway and parts of the Stuart Highway through the NT as well.
We’ve seen falls up to 350mm, well inland, with this system. We’re experiencing some locations getting 100 to 200mm a day, and a severe weather warning is current for parts of the Barkly area. That includes the Tennant Creek area and towards the Queensland border if you’re heading towards Mount Isa.
The slow moving nature of it means you’re getting days of rain and thunderstorms in the same area, which is leading to these high falls, widespread 100 to 300mm. Isolated falls even up to 400mm possible in the coming days. This is in a part of the area that only experiences a few hundred millimetres in are a year. Some locations could see up to a year’s worth of rainfall over a few days.
Could be some gusty winds with some of the rain there as the tropical low continues to spin around the NT. We’re seeing flood watches current for all rivers across the NT, particularly for Katherine and large parts. That means rainfall likely to lead to flash and riverine flooding in these areas.
Conditions cooled. It’s really moist offshore, cooler air than normal, that’s led the air to condense and turn into fog.
We had east-north-easterly winds drag that fog onshore. It’s covered much of the Sydney basin and a lot of the New South Wales coast in fog.
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