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Weather Channel senior meteorologist Dick Whitaker said Darwin recorded a total of 339.6mm of rain during the 24 hours ending at 9am today.
"This is an all time 24 hour rainfall record for the city," he said.
This rain is on top of the 131mm which fell in the previous 24 hours. The two-day total of more than 450mm is also a new record.
A side-effect of this persistent rain is cold weather.
Darwin is experiencing some of its coldest wet season weather on record as the temperature struggles to exceed 25 degrees.
Today's downpour has taken Darwin's monthly rainfall past 950 millimetres, making it their wettest month in 34 years, and is within striking distance of becoming the wettest month on record.
This month has now become wetter than January 1995 when 940mm fell and as of 3pm Wednesday was only 60mm short of the record 1013mm, set in March 1977.
More than half of this month's rain came down in just three days last week, during Cyclone Carlos' development. This was the wettest three days on record, when a whopping 645mm fell.
Some parts of Darwin have already exceeded one metre of rain for February. Up until this morning Leanyer had 1060mm.
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Banded-legged Aretza Aretza sp .3
Litchfield National Park Tolmer Falls
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Weather Channel senior meteorologist Dick Whitaker said Darwin recorded a total of 339.6mm of rain during the 24 hours ending at 9am today.
"This is an all time 24 hour rainfall record for the city," he said.
This rain is on top of the 131mm which fell in the previous 24 hours. The two-day total of more than 450mm is also a new record.
A side-effect of this persistent rain is cold weather.
Darwin is experiencing some of its coldest wet season weather on record as the temperature struggles to exceed 25 degrees.
Today's downpour has taken Darwin's monthly rainfall past 950 millimetres, making it their wettest month in 34 years, and is within striking distance of becoming the wettest month on record.
This month has now become wetter than January 1995 when 940mm fell and as of 3pm Wednesday was only 60mm short of the record 1013mm, set in March 1977.
More than half of this month's rain came down in just three days last week, during Cyclone Carlos' development. This was the wettest three days on record, when a whopping 645mm fell.
Some parts of Darwin have already exceeded one metre of rain for February. Up until this morning Leanyer had 1060mm.
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Banded-legged Aretza Aretza sp .3
Litchfield National Park Tolmer Falls
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