Wynberg Station owner Chris Chaplain said on Saturday evening that it was “the best storm we’ve had in three years’’. 

“It’s a good start and it gives us hope,” she said. 

“This tonight [Saturday] is like what it used to be in past years.” The drought situation was “diabolical” and it was necessary for stations that the region received a proper wet season. 

“On a lighter note this storm is fantastic,” Mrs Chaplain said. 

“It’s covered a huge area, let’s hope it continues.”

Wynberg Station is east of Cloncurry along the Landsborough Highway, and the dry Williams River marks a boundary. 

Mrs Chaplain said the station endured destructive winds and about 28 millimetres of rain about two weeks ago.

The wind was strong enough for a small shed on the station to be blown away. 

Cloncurry Shire councillor Keith Douglas said as the storm loomed that the shire needs “some good steady monsoonal rain”.

“We definitely need water, no doubt about that,” he said. 

Cr Douglas said the rain needed to be steady between Christmas to about April. 

“We need it to start early enough to grow grass,’’ he said. 

“We do need the river to run ... all the underground water needs to be replenished.” 

The bores were running low or drying up, he said. 

“We need a good old fashioned wet like in the old days. The old people remember them.”