SURFERS OUT OF LUCK AND MORE RAIN TO COME
THE Greater Darwin region has been experiencing the fruit of the wet season with “typical” amounts of rainfall that has been tracking close to the average monsoonal trajectory.
According to the Bureau of Meteorology, Darwin Airport had a total rainfall of 390mm for January.
BoM meteorologist Billy Lynch said the long-term average for January at the airport was 430mm, “so we were just below average”.
“If we see how we’re tracking for the entire wet season up until this point, we’re sitting just above average,” Mr Lynch said. “So basically the wet season for Darwin is tracking pretty close to normal, that’s what the numbers are telling us.”
Unfortunately, surfers willing to take the risk of swimming in the croc-infested waters are increasingly losing their peak chance at catching a gnarly wave.
“By Monday the swell will drop off to about half a metre, there’s a small chance people can catch some waves this weekend – it’s probably not going to be very good,” Mr Lynch said.
“Surfers need to wait for the monsoon, a tropical low or a cyclone to develop and the surf will definitely pick up again.”
The Darwin region can expect more typical wet season condtions to persist.