MELBOURNE - Oct 8/14 - SNS -- The current forecast for the state of Queensland was released by Australia's Bureau of Meteorology.
Weather Situation A high over southeastern Australia will move over the Tasman Sea later on Thursday whilst extending a ridge along the east coast of Queensland. A surface trough should deepen over Queensland's central and southern interior late in the week and remain slow moving over the interior during the weekend. Forecast for the rest of ThursdayFine and mostly sunny except for a slight chance of light showers about the southeast and central coast regions. The chance of thunderstorms about inland parts of the Capricornia district this afternoon. Moderate to fresh east to southeast winds about the far east, and light to moderate southeast to southwest winds elsewhere.Fire Danger - Very high about parts of the northern interior and central interior districts.Friday 10 OctoberA new upper trough is likely to approach the southwest of the state, and will work with a surface trough to produce a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms over the central west and southern interior. A ridge should push an onshore flow and a medium chance of showers onto the tropical east coast. Fine and mostly sunny elsewhere.Saturday 11 OctoberThe upper trough should drift towards the southern interior, whilst the surface trough strengthens beneath it, leading to a medium chance of showers and thunderstorms in a broad band from the central interior and into the southern and southeast interior. Fine and mostly sunny about most of the east coast except for a slight chance of showers about the tropics.Sunday 12 OctoberThe surface trough should drift a little eastwards over the interior of the state and showers and storms will form near and ahead of it in a band from Queensland's far north, across the central interior and down into the state's southeast quarter. Much of the east coast should remain fine and partly cloudy. Fine and sunny in the far southwest.Monday until WednesdayThe surface trough should drift into Queensland's eastern districts, and along with a new upper trough approaching from the west, should produce areas of showers and thunderstorms over the eastern districts early in the new week. Fine and mostly sunny over the remainder of the state.The next routine forecast will be issued at 4:30 pm EST Thursday.Product IDQ10700 Notice Board MetEye extended into Queensland Queensland's improving weather services --> Rainfall Forecast Terminology 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 03:30 on Thursday 9 October 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] == "wdev") var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-21709175-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); else var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-3816559-1']); _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); })(); var _nol = { pvar: { cid: "abm", content: "0", server: "secure-au" } }; (function () { var s = document.createElement('script'); s.type = 'text/javascript'; s.async = true; s.src = '//secure-au.imrworldwide.com/v60a.js'; var x = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; x.parentNode.insertBefore(s, x); })();
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