The last time grazier Alan Webber saw this much rain fall during January was in 2009.
"It's beautiful. Everything is just so green," the Gulf of Carpentaria cattle farmer said.
Thanks to Ex-Tropical Cyclone Ellie and a monsoon developing across northern Queensland, it has been raining on-and-off across the red-dirt country since late-December.
Mr Webber's Mellish Park Station, located 40 kilometres south of Gregory, received 260 millimetres of rain over the past three days.
The rain was widespread, with neighbouring Floraville Downs Station receiving 479mm over the previous seven days.
"We haven't had a wet season like this in 14 years," station manager Kylie Camp said.
Further north, residents in Burketown welcomed 232mm for the week.
Down south, the biggest total in Mount Isa was recorded just north of the town at Gereta Station, with 117mm across seven days.
Lake Julius Dam, about 70 kilometres north-east of Mount Isa, spilled over this week.
Mr Webber said the team at Mellish Park Station "can't remember the last time we've had rain that good in January".
"It's very important to us. We get moisture back into the country and we get a good body on our pasture," he said.
Mr Webber's cattle station is one of several remote properties in the region cut off by floodwater.
Urandangi evacuated
The small town of Urandangi, about 200km south-west of Mount Isa, was forced to evacuate last week after floods inundated the community and compromised the local water supply.
Tobermorey Station and the Barkly Homestead, both near the Northern Territory-Queensland border, were also cut off, while eight people were rescued from flooded roads across the region in one week.
The Bureau of Meteorology has forecast more wet weather, with above-average rainfall predicted for the rest of the wet season.
"We do have a drier trend for the north-west region in the latter parts of January before a return to above-average rainfall in late January, early February, with more systems coming into play," meteorologist Danny Teece-Johnson said.
For Mr Webber, he hopes the roads do not open up too soon.
"I'm definitely not complaining about being cut-off. I wouldn't have it any other way," he said.
"I'd like to see it rain off-and-on and maintain a good wet season right through to the end of March. That way we will have green feed into winter."
