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March 1, 2007 on 4:49 pm | In Weather Reports | No Comments

Well the wet season has just been plodding along with below average rain fall until the last week.

The prayers, rain dances, and strange rain rituals of keen Barramundi fishers from around the Northern Territory, Australia & the world have not been in vein. 

We wanted rain and we have certainly got it.

The catchments of the Mary, South & East Alligator Rivers have copped a heap of rain in the last week with the last couple of days producing rainfall that locals haven’t seen for some time. All these three rivers are now in full flood again and with more rain likely over the next week we are now pretty much guaranteed good run off in these locations through until mid to late May. The Daly catchment has missed out on a bit of this rain but with the monsoon trough still active and a low pressure system tipped to head west over the next week the Daly should get its share also.

For those of you in the southern parts of Australia still experiencing drought you may wish to give the table below a miss. 

Daily Rainfall in Millimetres.

Station Name 24 hours to 9am – last 7 days
23 24 25 26 27 28 1
Katherine River
Katherine River Upper Reaches* 3.5 34 18 34 32 69
Snowdrop Creek* 0.0 4.0 1.8 3.0 28 49 45
Wildman Rangers 8.5 21 69 13 75 195 58
Mary River Rangers 18 1.1 0.7 5.9 3.0 90
Central Arnhem Plateau AWS* 25 1.4 38 25 12 61 79
Darwin Airport* 10 18 42 15 74 35 6.0
Jabiru Aero* 41 70 20 9.0 44 145 300
Oenpelli 39 7.7 35 154/2 144 311

If you’ve been waiting for reports of good rains before booking your trip well wait no longer in a week or two the fishing should be on for young and old.

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