Visitors flocking to Queensland’s Darling Downs for the annual Carnival of Flowers in Toowoomba are advised to take an umbrella, with thunderstorms forecast for the region on Friday.<\/p>\n
The Bureau of Meteorology said showers and thunderstorms were also expected on Friday across the state’s south-east, including Brisbane and the Gold and Sunshine coasts.<\/p>\n
Possible severe storms were forecast for Saturday, before conditions were expected to ease on Sunday.<\/p>\n
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Visitors are advised that rain may fall this weekend in Toowoomba but there’s still plenty to see. (ABC Southern Queensland: Dan McCray)<\/p>\n
Bureau meteorologist Jordi Cairol said thunderstorms over the next two days could include heavy rainfall, large hail and damaging wind.<\/p>\n
“It’s pretty much across the southern part of the state from the Channel Country to the south-east coast and pretty much across all of the south but including the Darling Downs,” Mr Cairol said.<\/p>\n
He said the showers and thunderstorms would be triggered by a trough coming up through New South Wales and moving towards the south-eastern part of Queensland.<\/p>\n
While rainfall totals in the Darling Downs could be up to 20 millimetres, Mr Cairol said normal conditions for the south-east were expected to return on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Widespread morning fog is also possible in the eastern part of the state.<\/p>\n
Temperatures are expected to reach 28 degrees in Brisbane and 26 degrees on the Gold Coast, respectively, on Friday.<\/p>\n
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The Mulgrave River catchment south of Cairns has received hundreds of millimetres of rain this week.\u00a0 (ABC Far North Qld: Christopher Testa)<\/p>\n
Flood warnings set to ease<\/p>\n