‘Unseasonable’ cloud band could double monthly average rainfall in areas of central Australia

BoM meteorologists have said forecasts show rain is ‘going to fall over areas that [typically] receive very little rainfall in the month of June’. Photograph: Bureau of Meteorology

A large cloud band is set to bring unseasonable wet weather to parts of Australia as it moves eastwards across the country this week.

The Bureau of Meteorology’s forecasts suggest a rain band developing over northern Western Australia on Sunday into Monday will move towards the eastern states over the first half of the week.