wet season

LOL. How long is a piece of string? LOL

Seriously though, all the forecasters are predicting a long wet. This would be one year I'd stay in Darwin.

The bitumen roads are open for most of the wet, although the Vic River can close the roads for a few weeks.

The Gibb River Road will be closed for sometime yet. Based on past years, it should be open by May, but like last year, the roads can be closed anytime of the year if rainfall occurs ( I believe some campers where stranded at Kalumburu for an extended time that some chose to load vehicles onto the barge to Wyndham)

Good site for current road conditions for WA is http://standards.mainroads.wa.gov.au/NR/mrwa/internet/realtime/TRC/RegionalConditions.asp?1

Hi Clint and Chell

I think that ever since 2007, some has fallen in the Kimberley during June - when it is normally guaranteed to be dry. The past twelve moths have shown us how unpredictable and extreme our climate can be right across the land. I live in a previously safe winter rainfall area; rain usually mid May for four or five months with dry summers. Last winter was very dry - light showers only and few and far between during normal winter months, and so far during January, we have had two days of rainfall heavier than any day last year. For a long time, climate change predictions have been telling us that the north will get wetter and the south drier, and that times it falls will become more out of season.

Expect the unexpected. Make your plans around what you want to do, and be prepared to adapt. You can never know when the rain will come and how much.

Motherhen

Firstly there has not been an unusual amount of rain this wet, it seems fairly normal to me and the local Binjing mob.

Talking to them tonight we have worked out that it should start to slow down in March and like 2 years ago it should be OK to travel in early to mid May.

I follow Black fella way not that science mob, we have been here all our lives, not 5 minutes like them.

Safe travels.