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Rain, cold snap forecast for parts of Queensland before school holidays
South-east Queensland residents can expect a reprieve from the wet and wintry weather later this week before conditions pick up again ahead of the official start of the school holidays.
Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) senior forecaster Baden Gilbert said showers were forecast to continue in the eastern parts of the state before easing on Wednesday.
"As we go into Tuesday, we're going to see a trough crossing the southern interior, which is going to lead to showers about that part of the state," Mr Gilbert said.
"But by the time we get into Wednesday, that trough will move offshore and bring some drier air for much of southern and central Queensland."
He said the weather system was then expected to do a U-turn and bring more rain.
In Far North Queensland, the unseasonal rain is forecast to continue throughout the week.
"We're just going to see those showers sort of more persist, maybe easing back a little bit in the middle of the week and then perhaps pick up a little bit more as we go into the end of the week and into next weekend," he said.
Despite the wet weather, Mr Gilbert said overall rainfall totals would not be significant as the weather system was expected to pass quickly.
"Rainfall totals through the southern interior parts of central Queensland aren't likely to be too big because this trough is going to be moving quite quickly … and in terms of northern Queensland, nothing too big either."
Cooler temperatures across the state are also expected to return in the coming days.
"In terms of those minimum temperatures, we are going to see them pretty warm for the first half of the week," Mr Gilbert said.
He said temperatures could drop below 5 degrees Celsius in Roma, Charleville, Dalby and Toowoomba on Wednesday before falling even further to below zero on Friday.
"Looks like the coldest morning at the moment is going to be Friday morning, but it's not going to be as big or as broad as it was at the start of June," he said.
"We do get these cold snaps from time to time and our long-range forecast is showing that across winter as a whole we're still projecting towards above average minimum and maximum temperatures."
