MELBOURNE - Feb 6/14 - SNS -- The current forecast for the state of Queensland was released by Australia's Bureau of Meteorology.
Weather Situation The monsoon trough lies from a low over the Northern Territory to another low over the southeast Gulf of Carpentaria, across Cape York Peninsula and into the northern Coral Sea. A ridge currently lies along Queensland's southern and central east coast from a high in the Tasman Sea. A surface trough in the central Coral Sea is expected to move westwards towards the Queensland coast and is likely to move onto the central and tropical east coast over the weekend. Forecast for the rest of FridayRain areas and storms over the far north, more widespread with locally heavy falls near the Gulf of Carpentaria and the North Tropical coasts. Scattered showers and storms over the far northern interior, and mostly isolated showers about the eastern districts. Moderate to fresh northwest to northeast winds through the far northern tropics. Moderate to fresh southeast to northeast winds elsewhere, fresh at times about the central coast.Fire Danger - Very high about the western interior.Saturday 8 FebruaryRain areas and storms about the monsoon trough over the far north, more widespread and with locally heavy falls near the south coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria and about the North Tropical coast. Showers over remaining eastern districts, increasing during the day about the central coast as a trough approaches from the Coral Sea. Fine and mostly sunny through the state's interior.Sunday 9 FebruaryRain areas and storms over the state's far north, with some locally heavy falls about the south coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria. Frequent showers tending to rain periods about the central and northeast coast, and scattered showers and storms over the central and northern interior districts. Mainly fine over the southern districts except for the chance of some isolated showers and storms over the southern interior.Monday 10 FebruaryScattered showers and storms over the northern and central districts, tending to rain at times about the Gulf of Carpentaria coast and the North Tropical Coast. Mainly fine over the southern districts except for the chance of some isolated showers and storms over the southern interior.Tuesday until ThursdayScattered showers and storms over the western and northern districts on Tuesday, contracting into the far northern districts later in the week as a ridge builds up the east coast. Fine and mostly sunny over the remainder of the interior, and mainly isolated showers about the central and southeast coast.The next routine forecast will be issued at 4:30 pm EST Friday.Product IDQ10700 Notice Board Queensland's improving weather services Northwest Queensland weather radar installation complete Media Releases Marketing Meteorological Offices Cairns weather Charleville weather Longreach weather Mackay weather Mount Isa weather Rockhampton weather Townsville weather Weipa weather Other Information About Weather Forecast Services About Warning Services Warnings Water Climate Environment Tropical Cyclones Tsunami Warning Centre Agriculture - Water and the Land Marine & Ocean UV & Sun Protection Rainfall & River Conditions Graphical Views Radar Maps Rainfall Forecasts Seasonal Outlooks Climate Variability & Change Climate Data Online Seasonal Streamflow Forecasts Water Storage MetEye™ National Weather Services Aviation Weather Services Defence Services Space Weather Services Registered User Services Commercial Weather Services Business Entry Point Facebook Google+ Youtube Blog Careers Sitemap Feedback Freedom of Information Indigenous Weather Knowledge Glossary This page was created at 03:45 on Friday 7 February 2014 (GMT) © Copyright Commonwealth of Australia 2014, Bureau of Meteorology (ABN 92 637 533 532) | Disclaimer | Privacy | Accessibility var hostname = window.location.hostname; var host = hostname.split("."); if (host[0] == "reg") var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-20386085-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); else if (host[0] == "www") var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-3816559-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); else if (host[0] == "wdev") var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-21709175-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js'; var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s); })();
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