Farmers across Western Australia are celebrating as ex-Tropical Cyclone Joyce dumps unprecedented rainfall across the usually dry landscape.
Joyce has become a low pressure system off the Mid-West, and it has brought heavy falls to the region, with falls of more than 100 millimetres in some parts.
Ajana farmer Bob Porter said it was the best rain he had ever seen.
"Rainfall varied from 70mm to about 130mm about 8 kilometres east of here on the property," he said.
"And that 130mm rainfall was the highest recording overnight or daily recording since 1930, when we began recording rainfall here."
January usually brings little or even no rain to Ajana, which lies south-east of Kalbarri, roughly 530km north of Perth.
Mr Porter, who grows wheat, canola and lupins, said it should be a better cropping result in 2018 after a poor 2017.
"We might get some more summer and autumn rain which will keep it all fairly moist providing we get an average season, which we'll be looking at the growing season, in the winter months," he said.
"Then it should help us a lot."
He said while the area did receive some rain last summer, a lack of rain in the growing period meant paddocks remained dry, with the summer moisture sitting deep underground.
"It didn't really come up much until August, September when we got really good finishing rains," Mr Porter said.
"The crops were below par, probably less than half of what we would've hoped for in a good season."
