Cool weekend ahead after storms batter SEQ
Cool but drier conditions are forecast for the weekend after unseasonal weather unleashed heavy downpours and lightning strikes in the state’s south east this week.
After wild weather battered parts of the state, conditions are set to improve in the south east over the weekend.
Heavy rainfall, accompanied by 500,000 lightning strikes across Queensland and NSW, triggered widespread flash flooding, road closures and travel disruptions in the region on Wednesday and Thursday.
Brisbane was hit by severe weather from Wednesday, with many roads temporarily cut as rain hammered down from the north, with the city recording 43mm by 8.30am on Thursday.
According to the weather bureau, it was “very, very late in the season before winter to be getting these sorts of weather systems coming through”.
“You don’t typically see these big storm outbreaks across the east coast in the last five or six days of autumn,” the Bureau of Meteorology’s Jonathan How said.
But conditions are set to improve, with clearer skies and cooler-than-average temperatures – particularly overnight – on the way.
Brisbane is forecast to reach a sunny top of 23 degrees on both Saturday and Sunday.
Central and far north Queensland are being told to expect see similar conditions, with morning temperatures forecast to fall three to five degrees below the May average into next week.
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Minimum temperatures are also forecast to be “well below average” in north and far north Queensland.
Meanwhile, a coastal wind warning remains in place along the south-east coast for Sunshine Coast Waters, Moreton Bay and Gold Coast Waters.
-with AAP
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