MELBOURNE - May 12/14 - SNS -- The current forecast for the state of Queensland was released by Australia's Bureau of Meteorology.
Weather Situation A high over southeast Australia extends a ridge along the east coast of Queensland. The high should drift into the Tasman Sea during Tuesday and will maintain the ridge and a moist onshore wind flow along Queensland's east coast throughout the week. An upper trough lies over western Queensland and is expected to strengthen while moving east across the state during Tuesday and Wednesday. Forecast for the rest of TuesdayMainly scattered showers and the chance of isolated thunderstorms about the state's far east, with showers more frequent and widespread about the North Tropical Coast. Isolated showers about the southern and central interior, and isolated storms about the northern interior. Fine and mostly sunny through western Queensland. Moderate to fresh south to southeasterly winds along the east coast, and mainly moderate southeast to northeast winds elsewhere.Wednesday 14 MayThe high in the Tasman Sea should work with the weakening upper trough to produce scattered showers with some local thunder over Queensland's eastern districts, extending into the northern interior during the afternoon. Dry and mostly sunny over the remainder of the state.Thursday 15 MayThe upper trough should drift towards the east coast and it, along with a persistent onshore flow, should maintain mainly scattered showers about the eastern districts with just the chance of some isolated storms as well, extending into the eastern interior during the day. Fine and mostly sunny over the remainder of the state.Friday 16 MayThe high in the Tasman Sea should continue to push mainly scattered showers across the eastern districts. Fine and mostly sunny over the interior.Saturday until MondayThe high is likely to remain over the Tasman Sea and will continue to push showers across Queensland's eastern districts. Remaining fine and mostly sunny over the interior.The next routine forecast will be issued at 4:30 pm EST Tuesday.Product IDQ10700 Notice Board MetEye extended into Queensland Queensland's improving weather services 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 02:30 on Tuesday 13 May 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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