Its raining again

I think I can safely say that the wet season has arrived. In the last three days we have had well over 6 inches of rain (150mm+ in new money).
As a result of the long dry season though we have not had too many floods at the moment as the ground was so parched that most of it is being soaked up before it causes any problems. The rain has certainly made the forests lusher and it is nice to experience the wet bit of the wet tropics.
The current weather has been caused by a monsoonal trough that is stretching across Australia from Port Hedland on the west coast (where there is an active Tropical Cyclone) across to the Coral Sea off the eastern Queensland coast between Cairns and Cooktown. In the last few days the remnants of Tropical Storm Oswald  have been working its way down the western coast of Cape York in the Gulf of Carpentaria. This has given rise to the rain that we are currently experiencing and today in particular to much stronger winds along this section of the coast.
One benefit from my point of view has been that pelagic birds such as Lesser Frigatebirds have been pushed into inshore waters and today I managed to add it to the house list as a couple have been loitering over Yorkeys all afternoon.

These two wee actually taken yesterday at Mission Beach.

the weather is due to break over the weekend and next week the temperatures are forecast to soar again up to 37 or 38 degrees!