With some parts still recovering from devastating floods, and other parts hoping that ex-tropical cyclone Trevor will bring some drought relief; Cloncurry has experienced the full gamut of weather in recent months.
Ex-cyclone Trevor is currently dumping rain over the Northern Territory, with drought-declared Queensland shires waiting for their share of the rain.
The Bureau of Meteorology expects the system to continue its eastward track and bring rain in coming days to western Queensland, many of which are drought declared.
Cloncurry Shire Council Mayor Greg Campbell says for parts of the Shire, the rain is a welcome change,
“We desperately need some more rain, for the areas that weren’t flooded, per se, they just didn’t get enough rain that grew enough grass to get them through the year”
“Considering some of the falls were double and triple peoples’ annual rainfall, but because it all fell in such a short period…there was no sunshine and a lot of it ran off, it hasn’t grown that much grass.”