Torrential rain has swept through northern Queensland, delivering a small hiccup to the start of the dry season. Plenty of tropical moisture has fed through the north of the country during the last few days. Over the weekend, parts of the Kimberley in WA, have been swamped as the moisture rode in. The NT witnessed some unusual dry season weather too, as patchy rain swept through yesterday bringing totals up to around 10 to 12mm. The rain descended upon QLD during Sunday and delivered some decent totals, particularly to the Mt Isa/Cloncurry area. Many in this part of the world would normally be mothballing their rain gauges at this time of year. Luckily stations at both Mt Isa and Cloncurry kept them out and recorded 18mm apiece, their best May rain in 15 and 11 years respectively. It's not entirely unusual to get this kind of rain at this time of year, although as the statistics suggest it isn't overly frequent. Remarkably, this could just be the lull before the real storm, with computer models pointing towards a possibly larger event at the end of the week. So the wet season is over? Apparently nobody mentioned this to mother nature.