Monsoon and weather

• So, yeah, after 3 or 4 days of rain, you know, you'd normally wait a couple of days for it to sort of settle down and get into that monsoon break period, which is what we've, we've just come out of before the weekend.

  Bag a Barra — 30 January 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• It's uh, yeah, it's fair income, uh, monsoon conditions here at the moment, mate. It's raining a hell of a lot.

  Bag a Barra — 9 January 2026 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• And, yeah, of course, we can't force them into sitting at the same tree every time we want to go there, but, uh, you know, a good spot is usually a good spot, um, sort of ongoing until a tree falls over or something happens like that, you know, which, which can happen each year during a monsoon or a cyclone, of course.

  Bag a Barra — 3 October 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• So, you know, we're on track at the moment for a, a nice wet buildup and hopefully a big monsoon season as well.

  Bag a Barra — 26 September 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Yeah, we've had a big long monsoon there. Probably ran for about 10 days, rained every day in town.

  Bag a Barra — 4 April 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• It's an interesting season because we're actually in the middle of another monsoon right now, which, you know, it's sort of like we're, we're running a month behind.

  Bag a Barra — 21 March 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• You know, we get these monsoon break periods between the rain, so the ocean will be nice and flat.

  Bag a Barra — 14 March 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• I think we're in a bit of a monsoon break period at the moment and then there's some rain forecast next few days.

  Bag a Barra — 7 March 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Well, what has been happening because you've had the monsoon. That all still happening has the, how's the um, the weather doing and uh, what's biting? Mate, we got a heap of rain from that monsoon.

  Bag a Barra — 14 February 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• I suppose, we sort of expect the 1st monsoon in, uh, around Christmas time each year, but we've just been, we've sort of just haven't had quite had the right conditions, and then, of course, that rain in Queensland, and Western Australia sort of sucked a bit of our weather away, which it does do every now and then.

  Bag a Barra — 7 February 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• We're sort of heading for the, one of the later appearances of the monsoon, um, which is perhaps a bit of a, uh, well, I wouldn't say it's a worry, I suppose, uh, it'll be fine, sufficient.

  Bag a Barra — 17 January 2025 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• It's the beginning of September, and we're fishing the build up to the wet season, the monsoon that happens over the summer months up here.

  Fly fishing Bynoe Harbour Peachy Fly Fishing

• I mean, and we were sitting at the Dundee Tavern the other night with Popey, you mate, and having a couple of beers there, and you can imagine what it looks like when you have got a big monsoon or storm brewing up out in the west there, as the sun's setting, and then it comes across and just cools everyone down.

  Bag a Barra — 6 September 2024 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• It's hammering rain here at the moment, and it looks like the monsoon's going to form up again, as I get on the water for my next trip, which is um probably not ideal, but it's obviously part of the way we go up here, but yeah, just, it continues to rain, which is unreal.

  Bag a Barra — 8 March 2024 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• We've got a bit of a monsoon break period right here at the moment, but it is forecast to come back up from, I think, south of Darwin, which will just keep it.

  Bag a Barra — 1 March 2024 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Quite often it's not real windy, but it has been, has been quite windy this, um, this monsoon, uh, up, um, some gusts up to sort of category one cyclone conditions that sort of 90 to 100 kilometres an hour around Darwin.

  Bag a Barra — 19 January 2024 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• It generally does after Christmas, mate, as you know, you know, it starts to rain and then the fish will spread out a bit and maybe once people get right back out there in bigger numbers after the monsoon sort of leaves.

  Bag a Barra — 12 January 2024 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• We're in a monsoon break period at the moment where we're just getting sort of afternoon storms, and we actually had our 1st storm, which they call a knock them down storm the other day, which sort of signalled us up here that.

  Bag a Barra — 17 March 2023 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• They're forecasting us an early monsoon this year. So, um, sometime before Christmas, and that's just, um, you know, that's, that's absolutely key to get those floodplains full on the recruitment of Barra and all the other critters really happening and um, and set us up for another really good fishing year for, for next year.

  Bag a Barra — 14 October 2022 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• We've just had a few days of monsoon will break period here where we will get our, um, sort of um, we don't get our rain till late in the afternoons, which gives you a good chance in the morning to get out and do some blue water fishing and Snapper and dew fish have been going pretty well.

  Bag a Barra — 21 January 2022 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• So, it, we, the catch rates of the $1000000 fish does tend to drop off from, I guess, that 1st monsoon event onwards, but um, it does go through until the end of March.

  Bag a Barra — 31 December 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Just, um, you know, it goes back into stormy stuff unless we get a monsoon, come back down to another cyclone.

  Bag a Barra — 5 March 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• When the monsoon turns up and yeah, it's not looking like going away anytime soon too. So it's all good news.

  Bag a Barra — 29 January 2021 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• You know, we didn't get a hell of a lot here at my place, um, only 30 or 40 mil, but it was, um, yeah, it's that time of year, and we've got a monsoon coming down on us now, so, you know, we should have a wet week ahead, which is really exciting for everyone.

  Bag a Barra — 18 December 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• A monsoon starting to, you know, mill around up above us here now, so expecting very wet weather um for the next few days, so that'll be, that'll be really good and hopefully get that happening.

  Bag a Barra — 11 December 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• You know, the monsoon, hopefully, will turn up here at Christmas, on Christmas Day, or if not a week earlier, and it'll just rain for a month for us, which would be lovely.

  Bag a Barra — 6 November 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• We, you know, fingers crossed, it keeps ticking along and window 1st monsoon turns up around Christmas time.

  Bag a Barra — 9 October 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Once, particularly once the monsoon sort of comes down from Indonesia, we'll have those storms every night and it'll generally, you know, as you go into bed, it starts to happen and then all through the night, it'll start to rain at, say, 3 o'clock in the morning and then rain all the way through until sunrise.

  Bag a Barra — 25 September 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• But yeah, we've got a monsoon trough forming in the gulf, as we speak, so they're forecasting sort of this weekend and the next um, a few days after that to be really quite wet and that, that's got the potential to, to give us 500-0000, you know, like the last one we had.

  Bag a Barra — 21 February 2020 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• So how long are you on the farm for, mate? Yeah, I'll be back up, um, Top End on the 1st of December for a couple of jobs early, um, early January, but it is hard for us to plan trips in advance too much at this time of year, just because we really are expecting that monsoon to drop in from um, north of Darwin there, sort of any day now.

  Bag a Barra — 20 December 2019 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

• Um, but we don't really get the, the bulk of the rain sort of will happen from mid-December and we expect our 1st monsoon around sort of Christmas New Year's.

  Bag a Barra — 13 September 2019 Bag a Barra, Oz Off Road Radio

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