Queensland is in for more sunny weather with the possibility of some thunderstorms this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Bureau of Meteorology is also forecasting a return to regular spring temperatures after a spell of warmer-than-average days across the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Overnight the BOM issued multiple storm warnings for south-east Queensland.<\/p>\n
Hailstones between four and six centimetres in diameter struck Bellthorpe, west of the Sunshine Coast and Moreton Bay’s Stanmore just after 5pm.<\/p>\n
Senior meteorologist Angus Hines said the storm risk was “widespread”.<\/p>\n
“Each afternoon and evening, we see another round where we will likely see storms pop up over large parts of Queensland,” Mr Hines said.<\/p>\n
“For Monday that stretches right from the south-east coast \u2026 up into the interior, up into the central tablelands and really pushes right across the state out to the far west and through the Cape York Peninsula.<\/p>\n
“However, even though all of these places have a chance of thunderstorm, we’re certainly not going to see storms in all of these areas.<\/p>\n
“When they develop, they will be fairly patchy.”<\/p>\n
He said there was a “slight” risk of severe thunderstorms for the south-east on Monday afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“There will be big gaps in between the stormy areas, so actually for large parts of Queensland, it will shake out to be a fairly fine few days \u2014 quite warm and sunny with little to no rainfall”<\/p>\n
The bureau has advised people to watch the weather radar and any warnings it issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Minimal rain on horizon<\/p>\n
Mr Hines said the mercury will return to average this week for much of the state, before warmer temperatures arrive again next weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s fair to say the south-east has had a few warm days in the last couple of weeks, but those temperatures are coming down a little bit,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Apart from storms delivering isolated rainfall, there’s not much moisture forecast anytime soon.<\/p>\n
“Most of the rain in the coming seven days looks to be driven by thunderstorms,” Mr Hines said.<\/p>\n
“Storms tend to just bring those very hit and miss variable rainfall totals.<\/p>\n
“Exactly underneath where those storms form, we could easily see between 30 and 50 millimetres of rain, and it could come down really quickly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“In between the storms, little to no rain is expected over the coming five to seven days.”<\/p>\n
The dry weather means the bushfire danger remains high, particularly in northern parts of the state.<\/p>\n
Fire bans are in place for several regions from Townsville to the South Burnett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queensland is in for more sunny weather with the possibility of some thunderstorms this week.\u00a0 The Bureau of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,61838,44,128698,128697,128696,61837,128699,128700],"class_list":["post-208702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bom","tag-news","tag-qld-forecast","tag-qld-weather","tag-queensland-forecast","tag-queensland-weather","tag-thunderstorm-in-qld","tag-whats-the-weather-in-qld"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}