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Batten down for a wild end to summer as heavy rain, storms to hit SEQ

The last few days of summer in south-east Queensland are set to go out with a bang as the relatively benign weather for most of the month gives way to a run of heavy rainfall and storms.

Feb 22, 2022, updated Feb 22, 2022
Image: Wikimedia Commons

Image: Wikimedia Commons

The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting rainfall of up to 50 mm throughout south-east Queensland in coming days, with higher falls in some areas.

The heavy rain is expected to begin on Wednesday and run through until Friday before slowly clearing over the weekend.

However widespread showers and thunderstorm activity is likely to continue in the region until Monday.

Bureau meteorologist Helen Reid said thunderstorms were expected from the north of the state to the south-east.

“There’s a possibility of severe thunderstorms over the central and southern interior and also parts of the south-east coast,” she said.

“Heavy rainfall and damaging wind gusts are the main risks associated with severe thunderstorms.”

She said south-east Queensland had the potential to see a “marked increase in rainfall between Wednesday and Friday but it was uncertain where the heaviest falls would happen in the region.

However, parts of the region might experience falls “similar to or exceeding” the entire average for the month of February.

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The cause is a surface trough moving from the northwest of the state into the south, likely to meet up with a coastal trough to produce unsettled weather.

Temperatures are set tor reach the mid to high 20s in most coastal areas as well as Ipswich and the Scenic Rim.

The storms and wild weather are expected to hit the southern inland before moving closer to the coast.

Meanwhile, a torrential downpour was lashing Sydney and other parts of NSW on Tuesday, with with the rain expected to last throughout the week as the humidity hits 90 per cent.

While much of eastern Australia is in for a wet few days, the western side of the continent is struggling through an extended heatwave, with Perth likely to break its record number of days at or above 35 degrees celsius in s single summer.

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