After predictions of a dire summer rain-wise in these parts, we’ve been blessed with a late season monsoon descended on the Top End of the Northern Territory.
The NT isn’t alone in getting a good drenching this summer, with Cyclone Alfred taking a slow stroll down the east coast and a large, slow-moving tropical system flooding much of the centre and inland parts north and east.
One thing that marks a local up here is the welcome given to a good dose of rain.
While elsewhere in the country folks complain after a few back-to-back days of rain, a giveaway of a true Top-Ender is their knowing grin when the topic of heavy rains arises.
Most of us love a good downpour and while others might be feeling miserable and cabin-feverishly miserable after a week-long run of deluge and mizzle, your true local gives a wide smile, looks heavenward and silently wishes for more.
Then we typically reach for our phones to check the colour of the incoming storm on the BoM site, smiling to ourselves when the radar shows plenty of yellow and red.
Yesterday I found myself in my car outside my local shopping centre in the middle of one of our beloved cloudbursts with plenty of lightning and thunder accompanying.
This is some of what I saw …
Remember, #alwayscarryacamera
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