Boulia Shire has experienced extremes in weather over the last week, from bitumen-melting temperatures to an enormous thick red dust storm and now much-needed rain.
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A string of days above 40 degrees this month, until Tuesday January 29 when temperatures plummeted to 34.6, and bought with it a severe dust storm, have been predictors of hope for the arrival of a wet season.
Boulia Shire Mayor Rick Britton said it’s like the poem says ‘the land of drought and flooding rains’.
“It’s part and parcel of where we live. Everyone is holding their breath that the rain keeps coming to give us a wet season,” Cr Britton said.
“Most people will bear with the heat and the dust because they realise that these things could lead up to a wet.”
The chance of rain remains high for the next seven days as the monsoon trough and large tropical low linger over northern Queensland.
This will continue to produce areas of heavy rain and thunderstorms on a daily basis, which is likely to produce flooding.
Cr Britton said this bit of activity is promising, we’re still early into the wet season.
“We still have February and March to go yet.”
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