A Wet Dry?

You won't see rain, they told me on the phone before I came up to he Top End. It'll be the dry season they said, sunny everyday, not a drop, not a sprinkle of the wet stuff. But last night my suburb got cats and dogs.

It didn't rain for long, but it was intense. You can see hoe much fell by the level of water in the unit complex pool. The water lapped the bottom of the blue tiles yesterday afternoon, but this morning it was almost bursting over the pebble-crete banks.

There were even droplets of rain on the low water garden this morning.

The humidity has also returned. At the moment it's 9:30pm the temperature is still 27 C and the humidity is at 79%. It's a real reminder that you're in the tropics.

The weather bureau says it's not unusual for it to rain at in May, but they didn't have any rain during the month last year. They said we could expect a little bit more but it will be isolated. They also promise the steamy air will evaporate soon.

In some ways I've relived that the weather here has some level of unpredictability, because life can be pretty unexciting without surprises.