state recorded their coldest mornings so far this year<\/a> last Friday, with temperatures dipping below freezing on the Granite Belt, but the cool change won’t stick around for long, with unsettled conditions ahead.<\/p>\nSenior forecaster from the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) Felim Hanniffy said frequent, nuisance showers were to be expected for much of eastern Queensland from today.<\/p>\n
“It’s not huge totals, but there will be daily frequent showers with localised moderate falls possible,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Particularly for the north tropical coast, even exposed coastal areas like the Wide Bay and Sunshine Coast.”<\/p>\n
‘Unseasonable’ rain likely for north-west<\/p>\n
But the rain wasn’t expected to filter from the east coast to the area most in need, the southern Darling Downs.<\/p>\n
Further inland, a cloud band developing near Mount Isa could deliver unseasonable rain for the region on Monday, Mr Hanniffy said.<\/p>\n
Falls between 10 and 20 millimetres are likely, more than double the monthly average for May in parts of western Queensland.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We’ll see the focus of that activity contract further south across into the Channel Country through the week, certainly around Birdsville,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Further falls could be multiple times that region’s monthly average.”<\/p>\n
Overnight minimums are expected to peak between 2 and 5 degrees above average, bringing warmer sleeping conditions for much of the state.<\/p>\n
Strong wind warning offshore<\/p>\n
A strong wind warning is in place across the north and tropical Queensland coast.<\/p>\n
Mr Hanniffy said a dominant high pressure system in the Great Australian Bight was moving east, pushing onshore wind and showers along the east coast.<\/p>\n
“There are wind warnings for much of the far north, those will become more extensive about the east coast as we head through the week,” the forecaster said.<\/p>\n
Mr Hanniffy said the combination of weather systems could deliver big swell, but it wasn’t likely to reach the warning level.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“There’s a risk the offshore southerly swell could filter in closer to the coast Monday, and bring deceptively powerful swells along the south-east coast,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Showers and blustery winds are set to greet much of Queensland this week, temporarily abandoning the recent cool…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,10080,10081,4442,4443,338,9882],"class_list":{"0":"post-8696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-austrlia","10":"tag-falls","11":"tag-overnight-temperatures","12":"tag-rain","13":"tag-showers","14":"tag-weather","15":"tag-wind"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}