Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cIn addition to heavy falls tomorrow, we could also see areas or storms with damaging winds and large hail through parts of southern Queensland,\u201d Cherny said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd on Thursday, that area contracts to the east, focusing on south-east Queensland and parts of central and north-eastern New South Wales.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cherny said the low-pressure stream and moisture from the tropics were being enhanced by a trough through the upper levels of the atmosphere, which \u201cis really bringing that enhanced rain activity\u201d.<\/p>\n
She said heavy falls in southern Queensland and northern NSW were predicted on Wednesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe also have this trough system developing through Tasmania, bringing that moisture and easterly flow and that risk of heavy falls.<\/p>\n
The low-pressure system was expected to move offshore on Friday, \u201chowever, plenty of moisture will still be wrapping around that system, bringing that ongoing risk of heavy falls to coastal parts of New South Wales,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The eastern seaboard could expect accumulated totals of about 25-100mm through southern Queensland, with some of those heavier falls about the Darling Downs, 50-100mm through the NSW western slopes, falls of 100-150mm around parts of the NSW coast, and 50-100mm in eastern Tasmania, she said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, there had been \u201csubstantial warming\u201d in the central tropical Pacific region in recent weeks and all climate models reviewed by the bureau, including its own, forecasted sea surface temperatures reaching El Ni\u00f1o thresholds by winter.<\/p>\n
The bureau said: \u201cThere remains some uncertainty in the likely strength of this El Ni\u00f1o event. Models indicate it will be at least moderate in strength, with the possibility of a strong event, based on the extent of warming in the central tropical Pacific.\u201d<\/p>\n
The bureau said the strength of the El Ni\u00f1o \u2013 assessed by the sea surface temperatures \u2013 would \u201cnot necessarily mean strong impacts on Australia\u2019s climate\u201d because there were other factors that influenced Australia\u2019s weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Severe thunderstorms could bring heavy rainfall and flash flooding to eastern and south-eastern Australia in coming days, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-695533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695533","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=695533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}