A large surface trough is expected to be situated across the Southern Downs / Granite Belt, Darling Downs, Warrego & Maranoa during the morning and into the afternoon, before this surface trough eventually pushes through to the Coastline during the overnight hours of Saturday into Sunday. This trough is expected to continue to draw in very warm and somewhat humid air had of it with Easterly winds offshore veering more North to North Westerly ahead of the trough over land areas. These winds will combine with some increased upper level support in the wake of the trough to produce a thick band of showers, light to locally moderate rain areas and some possible embedded storms across Inland areas of the forecast region during the morning, afternoon, evening and night – with activity very slowly progressing towards Coastal areas. Any storms that do develop within these rain areas may contain locally heavier rainfall, some gusty winds and/or possible small hail.

Across the South East Coast, Wide Bay & Burnett, some isolated, patchy, hit and miss showers are possible during the day, however most of the rain chances are expected to occur during the overnight hours of Saturday into Sunday when the system eventually pushes through. By this time however, the system may be starting to weaken, leading to reduced impacts.

Temperatures: Brisbane 13-26ºc, Ipswich 8-27ºc, Beaudesert 9-26ºc, Gold Coast Seaway 14-24ºc, Gold Coast Inland 10-26ºc, Coolangatta 13-24ºc, Sunshine Coast 12-25ºc, Gympie 9-25ºc, Hervey Bay 13-23ºc, Maryborough 10-25ºc, Kingaroy 6-23ºc, Bundaberg 13-24ºc, Gayndah 10-26ºc, Gatton 9-26ºc, Toowoomba 9-22ºc, Warwick 7-22ºc, Dalby 7-24ºc, Stanthorpe 7-18ºc, Goondiwindi 10-22ºc, Roma 9-25ºc, St George 12-22ºc.