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Hector arrives promptly at 3pm. But Hector isn't a person
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As March comes to an end, so too will Hector. At least until warmer, more favorable weather returns.
Nearly every afternoon from September to March, a thunderstorm develops over the Tiwi Islands in northern Australia. In fact, it happens so regularly, the Bureau of Meteorology actually refers to it by name -- Hector. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, people are known to line the shores of Darwin, a city over 100km (62 miles) away, just to snap pictures of the storm forming.
Hector is not just any common thunderstorm, though; it is a very specific, very singular one.
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