While yet more heavy rain is expected to batter northern New South Wales and south eastern Queensland in the coming days, the forecast is significantly brighter in the north.
After months of muggy and steamy weather, the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) reckons the dry season may have hit the Top End.
The wet season in the tropical Top End of Australia usually ends around May when around six months of drier, cooler weather begins.
Angeline Prasad from the BoM told the ABC that Top End residents are finally enjoying some respite from the sticky humidity of the past few months.
The forecast in Darwin for the next week is for tops of 33 degrees and sunshine all the way.
“It’s pretty dry out there, the humidity’s already down to 40% so it’s pretty good,” said Ms Prasad. “We’ve had a dry burst that’s moved up north so it’s expected to dry out.”
For grey nomads currently shivering under a damp awning somewhere in the south, the news could just be enough to persuade them to bring forward any plans to head north.
The reputation of Darwin and other northern destinations for delivering near constant perfect days of around 30 degrees during the dry season is what persuaded many grey nomads to hit the road in the first place.
