Australia -- Queensland Weather Update

MELBOURNE - Feb 6/03 - SNS -- The current forecast for the state of Queensland was released by Australia's Bureau of Meteorology.

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WARNING SUMMARY
Flood warnings for the Lower Dawson River and tributaries, and the upper Burnett
River.  
STATE FORECAST
for the rest of Friday and Saturday
Fine in the far southwest corner. A few showers and thunderstorms over the most
of the tropics with generally light winds. A few showers about the southern
coast and adjacent inland, and rain areas and isolated thunderstorms over the
central and southern interior. Mostly moderate SE to NE winds.
EXTENDED OUTLOOK
A high pressure system is expected to remain over the Tasman Sea until early
next week, maintaining a moist easterly airflow into Queensland. This will bring
a few showers to the central and south coast and adjacent inland. An area of
converging winds is likely to produce widespread heavier showers and some
thunderstorms about the central coast today, slowly shifting north during the
weekend.
The upper low which caused the recent flood rain about the Capricorn Coast has
moved inland and weakened. However an upper trough is developing over southwest
Queensland which is likely to produce some lighter rain and isolated
thunderstorms over the central and southern interior during the weekend. This
upper trough is expected to move east and weaken on Monday with the rain
gradually contracting east across the Darling Downs and breaking up. An area of
fine weather over the far southwest corner of the state will spread further east
on Monday behind the weakening upper trough. 
Humid and unstable conditions will persist over the tropics for the next few
days with scattered to isolated shower and thunderstorms activity.
Daytime temperatures will remain well below average under areas of heavy cloud
cover and near average in other areas.

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STAT News Service

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