Summer's wild start is set to continue after the Bureau of Meteorology warned of severe thunderstorms to hit Brisbane and surrounding areas late on Saturday afternoon.
The bureau detected dangerous thunderstorms near Beaudesert, west of the Gold Coast at 4.25pm.
![Hail the size of tennis balls fell at Kandanga, near the Sunshine Coast, on Thursday.](/web/20161206041615im_/http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/content/dam/images/g/t/3/b/u/x/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gt3b8a.png/1480747633252.jpg)
Destructive winds, heavy rainfall, potential flash flooding and very large hailstones are all possible.
They are forecast to affect Beenleigh, Logan City, Woodridge, Mount Cotton, Sunnybank Hills and Archerfield by 4:55 pm as well as Brisbane CBD, Cleveland, Manly, Wynnum and Brisbane Airport by 5:25 pm.
Summer got off to a wild start this week, as Queensland saw hail the size of tennis balls, temperatures in the mid-forties, power outages and people being struck by falling trees as well as lightning.
Gold Coast beaches were also closed by Surf Life Saving Queensland about 4pm on Saturday as the storms rolled towards the south-east.
CBD & s'thn suburbs under immediate threat from a Very Dangerous storm. Large hail, heavy rain, destructive winds. https://t.co/FBmpsInT9o pic.twitter.com/tbrn4VwTbr
— BOM Queensland (@BOM_Qld) December 3, 2016
The forecast wet weather will bring much-needed relief to areas of Queensland which sweltered through top temperatures of 44 degrees.
Roma, 350 kilometres west of Toowoomba, recorded 44.4 degrees while Birdsville, near the Northern Territory and South Australian border, reached 44.8.
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