1mm at Charles River Big Dipper from a small shower and the top of the catchment seeing a shower as well.
due point still good and humidity as well, good for the mushrooms that have popped up everywhere and the mould on the ceiling.

5mm at Mt Sir Charles not bad at all, all we need now is a shower in town.
I must say that big shower out near Ross River looks quite heavy on the radar.

8.5mm at Wiggley Gorge this afternoon, another good fall, Looks like the Eastern burbs may have scored a shower as well, I could see the rain moving through the power station area.

thats it for today showers wise only 0.2mm in my gauge but Mt Sir Charles in the Todd catchment picked up 15mm, will be interesting to see if there will be any slight rise in the Todd tonight.

The todd River flowing higher again through town after 20mm at Mt Sir Charles, the Todd at Anzac Oval peaked at 1.92m at 01.32am this morning. I wonder if the council were aware and closed the low level causeways.

Yeha Tuncks Road and Schwarz Cres causeways are closed... stupid long way around to get to work

Car floats down Todd River in Alice
Kirsty Nancarrow, Thursday March 4, 2010 - 11:02 EDT


A car washed into the Todd River in Alice Springs. - ABC
A car was washed into the Todd River as the usually dry river rose again overnight.

Several causeways, including Wills Terrace, have been closed again.

The car could be seen this morning off the Schwarz Crescent causeway.

Alice Springs Mayor Damien Ryan says he is shocked to see the river up again under a blue sky.

"I've just been down to Tuncks Road crossing and the road is closed," he said.

"It's a surprise this morning but this would be a follow-up to yesterday's rain in the catchment."

- ABC

© ABC 2010

Looks like they forgot to close the Schwarz cresent causeway or were not keeping an eye on the river levels, no wonder a car was washed off.
I love Kirsty she always writes poor articles (as the usually dry river rose again overnight).
The river has been flowing since Tuesday last week. No need for the usually dry bit.

Quite a warm day in the Alice today. To think last friday the heavens opened over us, ahh memories!!!
Well after 11 days straight the Todd is still flowing and most likely 2 more days to go before it stops.
Anyway can't wait for the next rains to come, a wet winter sounds nice!!!

Another warm day in the Alice, no sign of the cooler weather as yet.

This would be nice for the SW part of the Territory as they have missed out on the Centre's big wet.
Interesting if it stays that way.

Another warm day in the centre. Went swimming out at Roe creek at Honeymoon Gap yesterday the water was fantastic, caught some fish for my daughter's fish tank and about 20 fat Tadpoles. The Todd has now stopped flowing in town after about 13 days straight.
I was told there are still plenty of waterfalls out at Trephina Gorge east of the Alice, so I will take the runt out there this coming weekend. Showers and a possible storm forecast for the coming weekend as well, that would be nice!!!

Good to see showers and storms to the Nth of Giles, I hope that area gets some rain, the wet stuff has missed that area since Laurence went through back in December.

The weekend forecast for the southern NT sounds fantastic with areas of rain with possible heavy falls in the western Alice district.
The trough which has been moving in from QLD has reached the eastern border and will continue to move west.
Another 49mm and I will crack 100mm for the month.

I can't see Alice Springs receiving anymore then 10-15mm out of this next system. The heaviest falls are going to hit the west to northwest parts with possible totals of around 20-30mm. The mid level trough is going to be more situated over the WA/NT border.

Not what we wanna hear Rime!!!!

Has been quite dry out west, Hope the rock gets some decent wet stuff.
Shame we don't get data out of Wullunguru (Kintore) near the border any more.
10-15mm fine by me, Just cream on the cake!!!!

Wattarka picked up 3.2mm past 24hr that will settle the dust.
Muggy and cloudy in the Alice today, plenty of rain over the west Macs atm.

Top stuff 56mm at Wattarka (Kings Canyon) since 9am. Just had a light shower pass over home but not enough to register in the Gauge.
Gee if 56mm fell in the Todd catchment today the Todd would be flowing Tonight.

NT drying up
Sam Terry, Monday March 15, 2010 - 17:40 EDT
The wet season could be on its way out as a pattern of generally dry weather is set to re-emerge for the end of March.

The main active region of the monsoon is further east of Australia, and is part of the reason for the formation of Tropical Cyclone Ului. Last week this monsoon trough funnelled moisture into a surface trough over Queensland, causing showers and storms.

That same surface trough then headed west, crossing the Northern Territory and is now situated over the NT/WA border region, causing some havoc.

Wattarka, in the southwestern corner of NT, has seen a two-day rainfall total of 134 millimetres, the wettest in 10 years.

The trough is still drawing in moist and unstable tropical air, with thunderstorms firing up a-plenty in the area as we speak.

Due to the high moisture content, flash flooding is likely where WA, SA, and NT intersect.

The Top End is also getting its fair share of the wet stuff. Cape Fourcroy has had a dump of eight millimetres in 10 minutes.

Rainfall should really be restricted to the NT coasts by Wednesday and, with no broad-scale tropical systems expected to come and beef things up, the rest of the season should remain fairly dry.

- Weatherzone

© Weatherzone 2010

As per usual Bom will not recognise the Wattarka falls on their rainfall maps as happened with Yulara's 75mm fall in Nov 2009.
So this 134mm weekend rainfall at Wattarka must not have happened!!!