Wild weather has lashed the Top End, with heavy rainfalls cutting off roads, and flooding waterways in Darwin, as the city experienced its wettest day in 7 years. The deluge made for a slow commute, with traffic brought to a standstill as roads were inundated. The dumping rain is from a strengthening monsoon trough, and there's plenty more where that came from.
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00:00 After a short spell of dry conditions, monsoonal weather has once again hit the top end.
00:07 So rainfall in the Darwin area is the highest that we've seen in terms of those daily rainfall amounts since about 2017.
00:16 So a fairly significant amount of rainfall in the Darwin area this morning.
00:21 Some areas received over 170 millimetres of rain, causing flash flooding in Darwin suburbs.
00:28 Residents in Darwin and northern suburbs would have experienced a delay in driving into the city or on their way to work this morning.
00:37 We had a number of road closures.
00:39 Rising tides and heavy rain proving the perfect storm in Rapid Creek, which reached a centimetre below moderate flood levels.
00:47 And the rain is only expected to continue.
00:50 We could be seeing 40 to 80 millimetres, possibly over 100 millimetres with that rainfall, particularly in the overnight period.
00:59 The Bureau and emergency services are keeping a close eye on a tropical low forming over land in the top end this week,
01:07 with a moderate chance of it developing into a cyclone in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
01:11 We're obviously monitoring the situation for each of the localities across the top end, just to be prepared if there are any impacts in those communities.
01:23 And an important safety reminder, don't drive into floodwaters and turn on your headlights.
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