Queensland weather this week is all about extremes.
According to the Bureau of Meteorology, residents of south-west Queensland will be hit with a heatwave, with temperatures expected to soar above 40 degrees.
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Brisbane temperatures will be in the thirties for the rest of the week with some inland towns getting up to 47 degrees. Nine News
Meteorologist Julian De Morton said Friday was tipped to be the hottest day of the week.
"The Darling Downs district and west of there right through to west Queensland will see temperatures well above 40," he said.
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"Around the channel country we will be seeing on Friday morning minimums above 30 degrees, Thursday night and Friday morning will be pretty uncomfortable."
Those living closer to the coastline will also be hit with high temperatures, however sea breezes were likely to keep the maximum temperature at 35 degrees.
While the south-west of the state battles a heatwave,far north Queensland is dealing with flash flooding after more than 300 millimetres of rain fell in some areas since 9am on Monday morning.
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The hot air mass moves over eastern Australia from Wednesday to Friday.
"(Monday) night was where we saw quite a bit of rainfall around north tropical coast," Mr De Morton said.
"We got quite a lot of falls above 200 millimetres and widespread and that was around the Innisfail region, most south of Cairns."
At the Innisfail aerodrome 279 millimetres of rain was recorded at 9am Tuesday morning, while South Johnstone recorded 257 millimetres.
Mr De Morton said showers and storms across the region had rolled into the area on Tuesday morning and it was likely that some places had received more than 300 millimetres of rain since Monday.
"After 9am there has still been a few showers and storms that have rolled through the Innisfail area, already today since 9am there has been a few places that have all gone over 25mm...one area has reached 55 millimetres so far," he said.
"There is quite possibly going to be more rainfall overnight and still got showers and storms on the forecast for the remainder of the week."
The Bureau of Meteorology issued a moderate flood warning for the Tully River at 10.35am and minor flood warnings for the Herbert River, Isaac River, Johnstone River Catchment and Mulgrave and Russell Rivers.
A general flood warning has been issued for the Diamantina River.