welcome to a new year! may all your forecasts come true in 2012 and you beat your averages!!

RAIN, RAIN, RAIN, RAIN, RAIN, RAIN, RAIN, WOW. Cannot believe it. Was so due for that even though it only lasted 3 minutes.

hahah good to see you excited popeye.Hopefully some more overnight for you guys.Mabe its going to be a wet season over there and not much in QLD..Would have to think about moving again

Yeah I will take anything at the moment. I think that little band was the remnants of something a lot bigger that was inland this arvo. Hopefully the webcam below will show some nice flickering over the next few months. Starting tonight.

WEBCAM TIMELAPSE FOR BROOMES FIRST ENTREE RAIN OF THE SEASON MORE TO COME HOPEFULLY

What do you think Hiho, about time we could look to the sky and see some nice close formations zooming in. I have a good feeling for the rest of the wet season. WA will be where the action is hopefully.

woohoo... 1.5 ml and rapped!! - I'm was soo last year while living that December thread......

Hey Popeye, yep very good!! I was beginning to go a bit potty with the "with every which way but here"... just what the Dr ordered.

Looks like things rapidly thinned out by the time they reach the Broome peninsular - welcome 2012!!!!!!!

Yeah sometimes I often think Broome just needs a few rains just to create a different moisture profile which tends to kick things off. Did a quick drive out to Gantheaume Point as it was approaching. Nothing flash but considering its the first for the year I will have to post up a pic. The colours in the landscape were just beautiful.

I have a feeling Broome will get spanked by a big squally storm this evening. Huge line on radar well into the central Kimberley but making its way slowly West towards us. Fingers crossed today will see the real deal for storms in town here with a 30-50mm downpour.

this wet's a bloody tease... hit and miss... Derby 35, Curtin 2... Broome still waiting

Beautiful pic there Popeye! Lovely contrast of colours.

Nice shot Popeye! Geeze the dust on the webcam has been terrible - just needed one good downpour to get rid of it! I'm really quite surprised it didn't happen in November/December... not sure if it's unusual not to get any heavy rain in those months? Anyway, looking at today;s images it looks a little cleaner already and there's some rain approaching again now so hopefully that cleans it right up! Just need to swap out the dead western camera now

Yep the webcam just got cleaned. Raining steadily here now. Often Broome's first rains are in late Dec. Early Jan definitely has you on edge though being so late. This season there hasn't been much inland build up which has been disappointing aspect. In a normal year you can get that regular big inland convection from late Sept right through till the first rains.

The rain now is nothing overly heavy but better than nothing. Chased up the Cape leveque road this arvo nice storm line rolling in. Very heavy downpour just out of Broome as we headed back into town. Sat down at Town Beach overlooking Roebuck Bay and watched the wind thrash in. It was weird the rain just sat 2kms offshore for over 20 minutes just sitting there really heavy and not budging. It finally decided to come in but the hoped for 30mm will be more likely 5mm.

Nice to finally see some of the wet stuff again. Once the town gets a good soaking I reckon the storms will break through that umbrella that sits over Broome and give us some nice falls over the remaining months of the wet. Can't wait for more.

13.5 mm at home

Poor Broome Guys.

Come down this way (Pt Hedland & Karratha) then you will have something to whine about.

Yeah I guess we have to whine abit longer until our 11mm season totals surpasses Hedlands 18mm and Karrathas 38mm lol.

Nahh it'll all come probably in some big bursts for you guys throughout FEB and MARCH when some big fat moisture laiden LOWS/TC's cruise down the Pilbara.

It has literally been 2 months since we have seen rain here in Hedland. The forecasts are looking promising though, according to my weather widget *which annoys me but I still haven't had the heart to delete it lol* Looking forward to a few big thunderstorms to pass by so I can do a quick chase. Looks like ya had a nice dose of rain up in Broome.

Out of the blue... a random 10 minute shower mid-arvo, 4.5 mm.

Nice one hiho, things are starting to happen up your way, definitely the time of year for it. Hope the predictions are right about the rain in the Pilbara this week, looks like it's going to be a ripper, early to mid week. Wife is wondering if it will ever rain here, so I bought her an industrial fan with high pressure sprayers for the back patio, same thing right ? . .

hahah - desperate times call for desperate measures FIFO. Was thinking about doing the same thing myself there for a while. Good luck for next week........... bring it on!!!