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ABC News
4 days ago
- Climate
- ABC News
Winter arrives with cold rainy weather in Queensland
Queenslanders are waking up to wintry conditions as temperatures in parts of the Granite Belt in the state's south-west drop below 10 degrees Celsius. The temperature in Applethorpe went as low as 6C overnight and the mercury dipped below 10C in Goondiwindi, Oakey and Toowoomba. The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said there would be scattered showers across the state that would ease at the start of next week. "A cloud band has been travelling across Central Australia and is now pushing into western Queensland," meteorologist Shane Kennedy said. "It's likely to bring scattered to widespread showers and periods of rain through parts of central [and] western Queensland. "Looking further ahead, it will expand to parts of northern and southern Queensland." The BOM said the most significant rainfall total would be in central Queensland and surrounding areas. "We may see some moderate rainfall between Charters Towers to Emerald and then on Friday between Bowen and Bundaberg, and then on Saturday rainfall should shift a bit closer to the east coast," Mr Kennedy said. "Friday will be the wettest day particularity around the Rockhampton area where we're more likely to see that rainfall pushing into 50, even up to 100 millimetres." After a slight reprieve, cooler temperatures are expected to return to the south-east in the coming days. "Lots of cool, dry air is pushing across southern Queensland at the moment and pushing up into central Queensland," Mr Kennedy said. "We'll get quite cool temperatures through much of western and central Queensland." Mr Kennedy said while the lower temperatures would not break any records, they could be up to 4–10C below average for inland Queensland. "That'll be roughly south of about Charters Towers to Birdsville and Taroom where it will be particularly cold and rainy," he said. Mr Kennedy said high tides would also peak on the state's south-east coast in the coming days. "In the south-east, high tides will be fairly close to their highest astronomical tide level for the next few days," he said. "So we may see some minor inundation of some of those low-lying areas."
The Guardian
25-04-2025
- Climate
- The Guardian
Two people hospitalised and Anzac Day services cancelled after wild weather hits south-east Queensland
Wild weather in Queensland has seen two people hospitalised after lightning struck their homes, while some Anzac Day services have been cancelled due to rain. A spokesperson for the Queensland ambulance service said paramedics had been called early on Friday morning to two incidents north of Brisbane. 'Both patients were reportedly inside when the lightning struck their [houses],' the spokesperson said. The first incident saw a woman in her 30s taken to Nambour hospital at about 12.43am, suffering neck pain following a lightning strike to a private property on Yandina Bli Bli Road in Yandina, the QAS spokesperson said. The ambulance service was later called to a second incident at 2.54am. Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter Paramedics transported a teenager to Caboolture hospital with minor burns after lightning struck a home on Coutts Drive in Burpengary. She was in a stable condition. Parts of south-east Queensland were inundated with up to 60mm of rain overnight, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. Brisbane CBD received 28.4mm, with 34.0 at the airport. Minor flood warnings were issued for the Mary, Maroochy and upper Brisbane rivers. Anzac Day services were reportedly cancelled in Beachmere, Broadwater and Deception Bay as a result of the poor weather. Senior meteorologist Shane Kennedy said enhanced onshore winds and an upper trough coming from inland had driven showers across the coast. The weather system had already eased on Friday afternoon and was expected to come to an end over the weekend, he said. 'The real peak period was overnight and both of those drivers are weakening now so there's some showers becoming lighter and patchier,' he said. Sign up to Afternoon Update: Election 2025 Our Australian afternoon update breaks down the key election campaign stories of the day, telling you what's happening and why it matters after newsletter promotion 'The worst has passed.' Rainfall totals at Caboolture and the Sunshine Coast ranged between 40 and 100mm, with parts of the Sunshine Coast receiving 102-240mm, he said. Kennedy said the region was also struck by a few slow-moving thunderstorms overnight, with about 2,500 lightning strikes or so to 9am Friday. The storms were not particularly widespread, he said. There was also minor flooding in Brisbane and Gympie. It has been an unusually wet and wild year so far for south-east Queensland, with many parts of the region registering rainfall well above the average for the wet season, he said. Brisbane was struck by its first cyclone in decades in March.
