Australia -- Queensland Weather Update

MELBOURNE - Mar 24/03 - SNS -- The current forecast for the state of Queensland was released by Australia's Bureau of Meteorology.

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WARNING SUMMARY
No warnings. 
STATE FORECAST
for the rest of Tuesday and Wednesday
Showers and thunderstorms over northern Cape York Peninsula increasing to rain
and storms overnight. Isolated showers along the east coast with moderate to
fresh SE winds. Isolated showers and storms in a band from the south-east Gulf
of carpentaria to the south-east inland contracting westwards on Wednesday.
Light to moderate SE to NE winds over the interior.  
EXTENDED OUTLOOK
The surface trough over the interior will drift westwards over the next few days
and then remain over the west of the state into the weekend. A band of afternoon
and night showers and thunderstorms will continue to the near east of the trough
with the main activity over the southern half of the state. This activity will
increase on Thursday and extend eastwards over southern Qld as an upper trough
sweeps across southern Australia and moves off the coast on Saturday. West of
the trough fine conditions will continue. 
The ridge of high pressure along the east coast will continue into the weekend.
This ridge will maintain moderate to fresh Se winds along most of the east coast
and these winds will direct further showers into east coast districts. These
showers will become more scattered about the far southern coast on Friday as the
effects of the eastward moving upper trough are felt. A weak disturbance moving
west across the north-west Coral Sea will cause rain areas and thunderstorms
over northern Cape York Peninsula for the next few days. This activity will
decrease to just a few showers and storms on Friday as the disturbance moves on
and weakens.  

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STAT News Service

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