Mr Lever is the new ‘‘weatherman’’ in the city, replacing Scott Adams in the role of Mount Isa Weather Bureau Field Office Manager.

First coming to Mount Isa in 1985 for work, Mr Lever has since spent a significant part of his career in the North West and now has family and friends who have given him an incentive to return.

Mr Lever has relocated to the city from popular tourism hotspot Lord Howe Island, and hopes to continue his streak of bringing rain to the city.

“I think just about every rainfall record in Mount Isa I have been here for,” he said. 

Mount Isa had its biggest recorded rainfall in 2004 with 213 millimetres recorded in one night. 

“The dam went from 12 percent to overflowing in one night but unfortunately it isn’t rain season but I will try hard to live up to my reputation,” he said. 

Lord Howe Island had an average rainfall of 1500 millimetres a year and Mount Isa has an average of 460 millimetres per year. 

“Mount Isa is more of a summer rainfall and Lord Howe Island is predominantly winter but it (rain) does occur throughout the year,” he said. 

Coming into the cooler, dry season Mr Levers said Mount Isa has experienced a couple of cool days with the average temperature of 28 degrees for May. 

“We get a typical desert season here with winter being our dry season,” he said. 

“We still get cool nights but by mid-morning it gets to mid-20s.” 

Mr Levers said while he would love to get involved within the community as he has done previously he wants to focus on his family and spend more time with his grandchildren. 

“I’m taking things steady this time but it is good to be a part of the community,” he said. 

“It is what you put into the community that you get out of it.”