Australia -- Queensland Weather Update

MELBOURNE - Apr 6/13 - SNS -- The current forecast for the state of Queensland was released by Australia's Bureau of Meteorology.

Warning Summary at issue time
A Strong Wind Warning is current for waters from Torres
Strait to Cooktown.
A Strong Wind Warning is current for waters from Cardwell to Yeppoon.
For the latest warning information please check the Bureau's
web site www.bom.gov.au/qld
Weather Situation
A high in the Tasman Sea extends a ridge along the east coast of Queensland.
The high will weaken as it moves eastwards towards New Zealand over the weekend,
gradually relaxing the ridge. An upper level trough lies over Central Australia
and is expected to move across Queensland's southern interior over the weekend.
Forecast for the rest of Saturday
Patchy, mostly light rain and isolated thunderstorms under a cloud band over
the state's western districts and the central interior. The cloud should clear
from the southwest in the afternoon but scattered showers and isolated
thunderstorms will follow. Isolated to scattered showers about eastern
districts. Isolated thunderstorms through the far northern Peninsula and
southern Gulf of Carpentaria coast. Moderate to fresh SE winds about the east
coast, moderate to fresh SE to NE winds elsewhere.
Forecast for Sunday
Cloudy conditions with patchy rain through southern and central districts,
with isolated thunderstorms also possible in the south. Scattered showers about
the central and east tropical coasts and adjacent inland. Showers and
thunderstorms should increase through Torres Strait, while more isolated showers
and possible thunderstorms will persist about the southern Gulf of Carpentaria
coast. Temperatures will remain below the April average over much of central and
southeastern Queensland.  Moderate to fresh SE winds about the east coast,
moderate to fresh SE to NE winds elsewhere.
Forecast for Monday
The upper level trough should contract off the southern Queensland coast but
instability will be sufficient about the southeast to lead to scattered showers
and possible isolated thunderstorms. Scattered showers should persist along much
of the east coast as a new high becomes established to the south of Tasmania and
directs fresh to strong SE winds onto the east coast. Showers and thunderstorms
with some rain areas should persist through Torres Strait, with scattered
showers and thunderstorms across the remainder of the far northeast of the
state. Fine and mostly sunny elsewhere.
Forecast for Tuesday
The high should move into the Tasman Sea and maintain a ridge of high
pressure and fresh SE winds along Queensland's east coast. Instability
associated with a broad upper level trough over the state may result in isolated
showers and thunderstorms over the far northern districts with patchy rain
across the far north Peninsula.   This feature will also help to maintain mainly
scattered showers across the eastern districts in the onshore flow, more
widespread with possible thunderstorms about the North Tropical Coast, where
some moderate to heavy falls are possible. Isolated showers will also spread to
the eastern interior. Fine and mostly sunny elsewhere.
Forecast for Wednesday
The upper level trough extending from the southeast to the northwest of the
state will strengthen as it is reinforced by a new upper level impulse moving
north from New South Wales. This will lead to the deepening of a surface trough
over the northwestern Coral Sea, near the north tropical east coast of
Queensland. This should result in scattered to widespread showers, rain areas
and isolated thunderstorms over the northeast tropics, with some moderate to
heavy falls possible along the coast and nearby inland between about Cooktown
and Ayr. The upper trough will also maintain scattered showers along the
remainder of the east coast in the onshore flow. More isolated showers are
likely to spread inland to the eastern interior, but it should remain fine in
the west.
Outlook for Thursday, Friday and Saturday
The upper trough is likely to develop further into an upper low over central
Queensland on Thursday, and then move only slowly eastwards later in the week.
The surface trough over the northwestern Coral Sea is likely to deepen in
response, most likely developing into a low off the north tropical coast, which
will then move southeastwards, roughly parallel to the coast. A ridge of high
pressure is likely to be maintained along southern parts of the east coast.
These systems will produce fresh to strong SE winds and at least scattered
showers and some rain areas about eastern coastal districts, more enhanced and
possibly heavy over the far east if the low develops and moves close enough to
the coast. A moist and unstable airmass will persist over northern Cape York
Peninsula and Torres Strait, with rain areas, showers and isolated thunderstorms
expected. It should remain fine and mostly sunny over the west through the
outlook period. Maximum temperatures will remain generally cooler than the April
average in the east and warmer in the west.
The next routine forecast will be issued at 4:45 am EST
Sunday.
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