Australia -- Queensland Weather Update

MELBOURNE - Sep 22/02 - SNS -- The current forecast for the state of Queensland was released by Australia's Bureau of Meteorology.

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WARNING SUMMARY
Nil.  
STATE FORECAST
for Monday
Fine almost throughout. Isolated showers in the southeast corner of the state,
with possible local thunder. Hot in western districts and the central interior,
with moderate W/NW winds. Elsewhere generally light to moderate southeast to
northeast winds, with seabreezes near the coast. Very high fire danger in the NW
and SE districts. 
EXTENDED OUTLOOK
Generally fine weather is expected through most of Queensland for the outlook
period. 
On Tuesday very warm to hot NW/NE winds are expected over western districts, the
central interior and southeast districts, producing maximum temperatures 5 to 10
degrees above average, tempered by seabreezes near the coast. Fire dangers are
expected to be very high. As a high builds in the Coral Sea SE trade winds are
expected to increase over the Northern Tropical coast late Tuesday and increase
further during Wednesday.      
On Wednesday a slow moving trough is expected to persist over the central
interior and continue to direct very warm to hot northerly winds over districts
to the east of the trough. At this stage it seems too dry for this trough to
produce any rain. In the far SW a weak SE change may reduce temperatures. 
This trough remains slow moving through central interior on Thursday and it may
gain enough moisture to produce some isolated afternoon showers over the
south-central interior.  

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STAT News Service

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