{"id":343969,"date":"2025-10-30T20:45:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/343969\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T20:45:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T20:45:21","slug":"queensland-braces-for-severe-storms-and-heatwave-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/343969\/","title":{"rendered":"Queensland braces for severe storms and heatwave conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Severe thunderstorms bringing strong winds and large hailstones are forecast to hit large parts of Queensland today.<\/p>\n

Damaging storms are forecast from the New South Wales border, west to the Darling Downs and all the way up the coast to the Capricornia, Mackay and the Central Highlands.<\/p>\n

There won’t be any relief tomorrow as the risk of severe storm activity peaks and a surface trough moves across the state.<\/p>\n

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Some Mackay residents are still cleaning up after a storm cell ripped through the area on Wednesday.\u00a0 (ABC Tropical North: Danielle Jesser\u00a0)<\/p>\n

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has warned that a storm supercell on Saturday could bring giant hail, destructive winds and flash flooding to the same areas at risk of activity today.<\/p>\n

Weather patterns could be similar to those that wreaked havoc on Brisbane last weekend.<\/a><\/p>\n

The areas of most concern from today through to the weekend are the Gold Coast, Brisbane and Sunshine Coast.<\/p>\n

It will still be hot and sticky weather in the south-east, with tops of 27 degrees Celsius on the Gold Coast and 28C in Brisbane.<\/p>\n

“We have a number of surface troughs sitting across eastern parts of the state, and that is generating quite a bit of shower activity,” BOM forecaster Jonathan How said.<\/p>\n

“We also have some fairly humid air pushing down south-eastern parts of Queensland.”<\/p>\n

\"Hail<\/p>\n

Hail of up to five centimetres was recorded across parts of Brisbane on Sunday.\u00a0 (ABC News:<\/strong> Alison Middleton)<\/p>\n

Mr How said it was a typical weather pattern for this time of year, with south-east Queensland squarely in summer storm season.<\/p>\n

But he urged Queenslanders to take care, prepare their properties and keep an eye on severe-weather warnings.<\/p>\n

Storms are expected to hit impacted areas from about lunchtime today.<\/p>\n

Mr How said that if there was cloud cover this morning, people could expect weaker storms than if early conditions were fine and sunny.<\/p>\n

Heat continues<\/p>\n

Far North Queensland can expect to continue to sweat through today, with heatwave conditions forecast for anywhere north of Cairns.<\/p>\n

Day and night-time temperatures are forecast to be above average for this time of year for FNQ, with Cairns headed for a top of 33C.<\/p>\n

\"Storm<\/p>\n

Rockhampton has experienced stormy weather throughout the week.\u00a0 (ABC Capricornia: Vanessa Jarrett)<\/p>\n

Heatwave conditions will be most oppressive through the far west of the state, into the Channel Country.<\/p>\n

“[It will be] very, very hot in the west, with temperatures reaching the high 30s, to early 40s over multiple days,” Mr How said.<\/p>\n

Birdsville is expected to peak at 40C today and 42C on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Mr How said heatwave conditions would likely extend to Emerald, Roma and Charleville over the weekend.<\/p>\n

There are a few storms forecast for the north Queensland coast today, between Townsville and Cairns, but they should not be anywhere near as dangerous as those forecast further south.<\/p>\n

The BOM has predicted that temperatures across the state will gradually start to fall in the second half of next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Severe thunderstorms bringing strong winds and large hailstones are forecast to hit large parts of Queensland today. Damaging…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":343970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,87709,1171,50,169340,313],"class_list":["post-343969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-australia","tag-bureau-of-meteorology","tag-heatwave","tag-news","tag-queensland-storms","tag-weather"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115465075953997154","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}