A much-needed drop of rain is falling parts of the country which have been much drier than usual in the early months of 2023.

You can see the broad cloudband on the satellite image below, which was captured mid-Monday morning.

Troughs over SE Australia are delivering showers and storms to a large area the shape of an inverted triangle, roughly extending from Adelaide to Newcastle and south to the NW tip of Tassie.

Some of the usual culprits saw a decent drop overnight. For example, the rain trap known as Sydney saw 8.2 mm during the 24 hours to 9 am Monday, most of it between 7 and 9 am.

Adelaide saw a similar amount to 9 am with 9.4 mm in the gauge, however that's a much more significant amount of rain for 2023 in relative terms.

As you can see from the graph below, the overnight rain brought Adelaide's monthly tally to 24.2 mm, which isn't that much, but it is still the wettest month of a very dry stretch dating back to the start of summer.

For those living in Melbourne, skies are being a bit of a tease again, as they have so often lately.

• Here we are on March 27 and rain has been recorded on 10 days in Melbourne this month, yet just 26.8 mm in total had accumulated to 9 am Monday (the March average is 50.1 mm).

It has actually rained 1 mm already this Monday morning in Melbourne, and a stronger band appears likely to strike around lunchtime. So cancel those outdoors lunch plans, but don't bank on your garden getting the good solid soaking it needs.

That's the thing about these cloudbands: sometimes they look more impressive on the satellite pic than they are in reality.

Nonetheless, with all those troughs around, and an incoming cold front later in the working week, showers can be expected across most of the southeastern third of the country this week, which will be good news for many.