00:01It's been a really wet week across Queensland and some parts of northern New South Wales
00:06too.
00:06Some of the seven day rainfall totals are really impressive, with much of South East
00:11Queensland seeing 200 to 300, even up to 450 millimetres of rain over the last seven days.
00:17As we know, much of that, those higher totals, much of that fell on Thursday morning around
00:21Caboolture there was 240 millimetres in just six hours, which caused a lot of flash flooding
00:25and other impacts, unfortunately.
00:27More broadly across Queensland, many areas have seen 100 to 200 millimetres of rainfall,
00:32right through the South East, up through Central and Western Queensland as well, and up towards
00:36Mackay and Townsville and the North Tropical Coast too, so most parts of Queensland, after
00:41what was a very dry winter, the tap has really turned on this past week and there's been plenty
00:46of rain around and more to come this week, this weekend folks.
00:49Yeah, the summer storms seem to be setting in, so what's the outlook over the next couple
00:54of days?
00:54There's more thunderstorms for Queensland?
00:59Yeah, that's right.
01:00Plenty more wet weather on the way this weekend.
01:03The focus for today, as I said, there's showers and thunderstorms and rain areas across most
01:08of Queensland.
01:08It dries out a bit in the very far west and the far north up the Cape.
01:12But for most of Queensland there's wet weather on the forecast today.
01:15The focus for today is a large area of central and eastern Queensland where severe thunderstorms
01:21with heavy rainfall are possible.
01:22So that includes some of the major towns and cities like Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Gladstone,
01:27Harvey Bay, Maryborough, maybe even the Sunshine Coast to Womba, also out west to Emerald and
01:32Roma.
01:33So those sort of areas could see severe thunderstorm warnings.
01:37Today we saw some warnings in some of those areas yesterday as well.
01:41And then tomorrow the focus moves a bit further south and a bit further west.
01:45So again, there's a very large area of southern and western and southeast Queensland, which
01:50could see severe thunderstorms tomorrow.
01:52That includes Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Toowoomba, as well as pretty much all of southwestern Queensland.
01:58So we've sort of been in a week of quite rainy conditions, really unusual for this time
02:03of year, a bit more typical of January or February than what we would typically see
02:07with, you know, springtime storms in Queensland at this time of year.
02:11But it will tend more towards that sort of springtime storm story, particularly Sunday
02:17and particularly Monday.
02:18So still plenty of rain around, but a bit more isolated and a bit more of those typical
02:22springtime storms on Sunday and then again on Monday.
02:25Okay.
02:26And where's this system sort of moving, David?
02:28Is it heading towards New South Wales as we get into next week?
02:34Yeah, it is.
02:35In fact, it's going to be a wet and stormy weekend for much of eastern and southern Australia
02:40as well.
02:40So the blocking high that's been bringing all that moisture and all that rainfall to
02:44Queensland, that's pulling a lot of the moisture south now over the weekend with a cold front
02:50that's coming up from the west as well.
02:51So those two systems combining, bringing in all that tropical moisture.
02:54So we're seeing, we're seeing some rain and some storms already this morning around South
02:57Australia, Victoria and even parts of Tasmania as well.
03:01So that cold front is going to bring a risk of severe storms to parts of South Australia
03:05and Victoria today, maybe including parts of Melbourne, Adelaide less likely to see a severe
03:10thunderstorm today.
03:11And then tomorrow on the broad scale is really sort of the peak day.
03:15So tomorrow on Sunday, we're expecting a major severe thunderstorm outbreak across particularly
03:20western New South Wales, the ACT, so including Canberra and then up through western New South
03:25Wales, some of the major towns like Dubbo, Orange and further north as well, maybe Tamworth
03:29and right up into southern Queensland, as I mentioned as well.
03:33So there'll be plenty of severe thunderstorms around eastern Australia, southern Australia
03:38today, but particularly tomorrow and then also on Monday.
