weather science

Unseasonal rain has left Uluru with waterfalls flowing down its sides as central Australia's iconic landform experienced its wettest September on record. The region has been hit by a series of tropical storms drifting in from the Indian Ocean in the past week, during what is normally its driest period. A weather station at nearby Yulara airport, about 30 km from Uluru, received 31.6 mm of rain on Monday. This is the heaviest falls since the site started taking records in the 1980s, overtaking the previous September record of 24.8 mm in 2010. Another weather station in Curtain Springs reported…