Australia -- Queensland Weather Update

MELBOURNE - Apr 15/13 - SNS -- The current forecast for the state of Queensland was released by Australia's Bureau of Meteorology.

Warning Summary at issue time
For the latest warning information please check the Bureau's
web site www.bom.gov.au/qld
Weather Situation
A surface trough extends from the Gulf Country down to the southeast
interior. An upper trough will move eastwards across the state's interior.
Forecast for the rest of Tuesday
Isolated thunderstorms and areas of morning rain about the central and parts
of the southeast interior, and areas of morning rain about the eastern tropics.
Scattered showers and isolated thunderstorms expected in the afternoon and
evening over the eastern half of the state. Dry and mostly sunny through western
districts and the southern interior. Mainly light winds over the interior and
about the Gulf Country, and moderate SE to NE winds about the east coast.
Forecast for Wednesday
The upper trough should weaken over the state's southeast interior but it is
expected to maintain some instability over the eastern districts. A new high
should enter the Great Australian Bight and push dry air into the interior of
the state. Much of the interior of the state should therefore see fine and
mostly sunny conditions.  Mostly fine though with some isolated showers about
the eastern districts with the chance of some afternoon or evening thunderstorms
about the southeast districts and the state's far north.
Forecast for Thursday
The high is expected to move east across the Great Australian Bight and
continue to direct dry air across much of the interior of the state, maintaining
fine and sunny conditions through the region. Much of the east of the state and
southern tropic should also be fine but lingering instability about the
southeast of the state should generate isolated showers. Isolated showers and
possible thunderstorms over Cape York Peninsula.
Forecast for Friday
The high will move over Tasmania as another upper trough amplifies over
southern Queensland. This upper trough will induce a surface trough that will
extend from the southern interior into the central interior. Increasing
instability east of the trough should cause isolated showers and storms over the
state's southeast. Fine and mostly sunny elsewhere.
Outlook for Saturday, Sunday and Monday
A high should slip southwards in the Tasman Sea early in the weekend, but a
weak ridge should remain along the east coast, and it, along with an upper
trough, should produce isolated showers about Queensland's southeast.  Mostly
fine over the rest of the state, with only isolated showers about remaining
parts of the east coast and in the far north tropics.
The next routine forecast will be issued at 4:10 pm EST
Tuesday.
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