Australia’s iconic Uluru reopens after heavy rain

AUSTRALIA’S world famous Uluru reopened on Tuesday after record-breaking summer rains turned the monolith in the middle of the outback desert into a series of cascading waterfalls.

The desert area usually suffers sweltering heatwaves in the Australian summer, but on Monday footage posted on social media showed rain pouring off the massive rock.

Northern Territory Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Sally Cutter said more than 232 millimetres (nine inches) of rain fell on Kintore on Monday, more than double the record December rainfall of 110 millimetres (four inches) in 2003.

Uluru, a sacred aboriginal site, is one of Australia’s major tourist destinations, attracting 300,000 visitors a year.

Around 80 people from Kintore remained in evacuation centers on Tuesday and roads in the area were inaccessible, a Northern Territory Police and Emergency Service’s spokesman told Reuters. – Reuters

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