Issued for Friday, Saturday & Sunday: During Friday a weak surface trough in Gulf and North West districts of QLD is likely to cause some afternoon showers and storms. This trough contracts out of the state over the weekend. Mostly fine conditions are expected across...
THURSDAY: A weak surface trough extends from the Gulf of Carpentaria through inland QLD and down into Eastern NSW (yellow line). Fine and sunny conditions are forecast to the west of this trough due to a dry airmass. Some showers and isolated storms are likely...
WEDNESDAY: Rain is continuing from El Arish to Gordonvale in North QLD due to a coastal tough which could push north into Cairns later today. Innisfail had another 100mm in the past 24hrs taking their Feb total to 1100mm. A weak low is developing over...
After 12 days of non basically non stop rain, it appears as though the event is finally over - from that perspective, as the flooding is still ongoing and will be for days, maybe even weeks in some areas. While we will have a full...
Over the course of the last 24 hours, further heavy rain has impacted the Paluma region whilst the indication of increased rainfall over the Whitsunday and Central Coast region has finally (from a forecast accuracy perspective) come to fruition. Rainfall across the Townsville region thankfully...
The rainfall totals that keep on keeping on.. even when it seemed like the bulk of it was over, another 50-150mm has fallen over the Townsville area overnight with up to 250mm in some isolated areas. Thankfully for those further South, the predicted 200mm+ didn’t...
Just as things were calming down, a dangerous storm developed over the Bluewater region which has lead to another night of catastrophic flooding in the region! This has lead to both Paluma and Upper Bluewater surpassing the 2000mm mark for this rain event. Due to...
Over the past 24 hours we saw what was inevitably the nail in the coffin for the Dam as more than 400mm fell over the Dam Catchment area leading to the inevitable 100% gate opening as the volume of water that was going into the...
Over the past 24 hours, we’ve seen the effects of extreme rainfall rates over a localised area in a short to moderate period of time. This was indicated by Ingham recording over 500mm in a 24 hour period, most of that falling after sunset, with...
Over the past 24 hours we’ve seen more areas hit the 300mm mark across the Greater Townsville region, leading to 6 day accumulative totals well and truly starting to become widespread in excess of 750mm and scattered over 900mm! The promising thing from the entire...