With the official totals still be released by the Bureau of Meteorology, monthly totals have combined for a terrific return to a traditional wet season, after the last wet failed.

The 2015-16 wet season total was only a third of this wet season, which has reached 1295mm.

The dry season officially begins tomorrow.

The strongest southeasterly wind surge since last dry season has swept out any lingering sticky humidity over a large swathe of the Top End.

Borroloola, with a minimum of 10 degrees, on Saturday recorded its coolest April morning since 1999.

The temperature fell to 16 degrees in Katherine this morning.

Alice Springs dropped to a three and a half degrees on the weekend.

While Katherine has recorded 1295mm between November and today, it has recorded 1003mm of that amount this year, against an average of 719mm.

At the same time last year, we had reached 312mm.

The wettest day this wet was the 78mm which fell on January 24.

April was a disappointing finish to the wet with about half the average at 22mm.

The wet’s monthly totals: