Firefighters in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia are in line for some much-needed relief from widespread rain in the next few days.
Every Australian state and territory will get solid summer rain as a rare weather pattern spreads tropical moisture across the continent.
The unusual combination of a slow-moving tropical low pressure system over the Kimberley, an active monsoon trough across northern Australia and a low pressure trough running from WA to Tasmania will deliver the mid-summer rain bonanza for weary firefighters and drought areas in the southeast through to Sunday.