Here in Broome we are having a wonderful start to the wet season, usually from November to April. In January more than double the average soaking rains have replenished the aquifers without much in the way of flooding. In the last six days about 60 mm more has fallen. Click on images to enlarge:
Roebuck Plains flooding drains into Roebuck Bay through mangroves seen in the distant background
Roebuck Plains, adjacent to Roebuck Bay is covered with plenty of water, sowing the seeds to many fat Brahman livestock on Roebuck Plains Station this coming winter: 
Birdlife will also appreciate the wet.
Another storm approaches …
Broome’s climate is still the same today as a hundred years ago:
| Broome (BoM station 3003) (shire population 2006 – 13,218)Pre-1900 vs recent 30 years mean temperature 1894-1899 (5 years surveyed) 78.6 F = 25.9 C 1981-2010 (30 years) Broome Airport = 26.7 C1894-1920 at Broome Post Office (elevation 19m, 27 years) Average mean minimum 21.0 Average mean maximum 31.81921-1950 (28 years) / min 21.2 / max 32.2 1931-1960 (21 years) / min 21.2 / max 32.4 1941-1953 (11 years) / min 21.1 / max 32.9 Relocation to Broome Airport 1981-2010 (30 years) 12 months February 2013 – January 2014 BoM average means all available years |
 Annual minimum temperature data 1910-2008Annual maximum temperature data 1910-2008 Recent picture of weather recording station Broome min/max temperature chart 1895-1952 Broome Airport min/mean/max chart 1910-2010 BoM historic annual minima from 1939 |
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