Rain is on the way
THE severe weather system over North Queensland at the moment will not reach as far as the Southern Downs, but a second system is expected to head this way, bringing plenty of rain.
Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Jonty Hall said falls were on the cards for the Rose City.
"Today will be pretty cloudy again with one or two showers," he said.
"It will continue through tomorrow with reasonable cloud cover overhead. Late tomorrow the showers will increase to general rain."
Mr Hall said the temperature would remain mild today and tomorrow, with lows of nine degrees and tops of 20.
"It will be quite wet on Friday with a possible afternoon thunderstorm," he said.
The northerly winds will stick around until Friday afternoon. "There will be a south-westerly change late Friday," Mr Hall said.
"The change will make it very gusty on Saturday morning."
The Weather Channel's chief meteorologist, Dick Whitaker, said the system over Queensland's coast would generate record rainfalls.
"A low-pressure trough approached eastern Australia on Monday, with the system expected to move slowly east (yesterday) and (today), generating further rain and thunderstorms across much of eastern Australia," he said.
"In Queensland, some areas are recording their heaviest July rain totals in many years."
Weatherzone's seven-day forecast shows the cold is set to return on Sunday, with a minimum of four degrees.
Rainfall
Where the rain fell from 9am Monday to 5pm yesterday:
Warwick: 0.8mm
The Head 6.4mm
