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Rain is finally falling in western Queensland with
drought-stricken graziers grateful for the reprieve from the dry
conditions as heavy but patchy rain falls across the west.
Fairview Station at Kynuna, north-west of Longreach received 205 millimetres with more rain expected in the coming days.
Caitlin Tait, from Fairview Station said the wet weather was filling the dams on the property.
"We have had a total of 205mm, leaving mass amounts of water laying, filling dams, running creeks, increasing our much-needed water supply," Ms Tait said.
"We should see a dramatic comeback in the country after this rain, with the grass getting such a good soaking.
"Keep it coming — what an amazing start to what we hope to be a long and very wet wet season — it's a massive sign of relief for many."Ms Tait said her young son was enjoying seeing his first wet season, which was a treat for all.
"We're hoping everyone gets some much-deserved rain after a few very long, very hard years," she said.
Mckinlay Shire Mayor Belinda Murphy said she was happy to report she had pulled her raincoat out for the first time this year.
"It's so exciting seeing the rain we've got," Cr Murphy said.
"It's so pleasing to see we've had some widespread rain.
"Kynuna has had over 110mm … to the north of the shire, there's been falls of 150 to 160mm."
She said for once it seemed like everyone was sitting under a cloud.
"I'm pretty confident that everyone is getting something out of this and hopefully it's going to last a few more days," she said.
"It's very exciting for our communities to see this low come in and basically a monsoonal event start to happen."
While the west was revelling in the falls, the brunt of the weather had been seen on the north Queensland coast near Townsville.
Oak Valley resident Ronnie Thomson said they had seen a phenomenal 769mm of rain fall since Sunday night to Thursday morning.
She said her daughter, Evelyn, had been having "an absolute ball stomping through all the puddles".
"I'm from Richmond originally off a cattle property and we always needed rain like this," Ms Thomson said.
"I'm really hoping it heads out that way and stretches across the state to all the farmers who actually need it."It really is all going to waste here now, with the opening of the spillway from the Ross [River] Dam yesterday."
Rain is expected to continue to fall in the region across the weekend.
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