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Queensland Weather

Current Warnings
 

Queensland Forecast

  • Wednesday Isolated showers northern tropics, mainly coast. Mild on coast, warm in southeast, hot in west.

  • Thursday Showers and storms in the southeast. Dry elsewhere. Very hot in the west grading to hot in the east.

  • Friday Showers and storms on the southeast coast.. Very hot in the west grading to hot in the east.

  • Saturday Warm in east. Hot in west. Showers and storms in west, mainly far west.

Qld Extremes and Records

Extremes and Records
Current Extremes   Last 3 Days Extremes Extremes This Month
Sun 22/10 Mon 23/10 Tue 24/10

37.1°C

Urandangi
Hottest

36.0°C

Burketown Ap

37.0°C

Scherger RAAF

39.0°C

Century Mine

42.0°C

Urandangi

20.2°C

Stanthorpe
Coldest

8.1°C

Stanthorpe

4.0°C

Stanthorpe

8.0°C

Stanthorpe

4.0°C

Stanthorpe

E 37km/h

Horn Island
Windiest

74km/h

Middle Is

59km/h

Gayndah Ap

50km/h

Bougainville Reef
-
no rain last hr Wettest

46.0mm

Fernvale - Burns St

28.0mm

Stanthorpe

27.0mm

Kowanyama Ap

27.0mm

Kowanyama Ap
Queensland's Records for October
Max Min Rain
Highest 46.1°C at
Century Mine in 2003
Lowest 5.5°C at
Toolara Forestry in 1984
Highest 31.4°C at
Boulia Ap in 1980
Lowest -4.5°C at
Cambooya in 1984
Highest 551.2mm at
Yeppoon in 1914

Queensland Weather Forecasts

Station
(ungroup by district)
Forecast Min Max Chance of rain Rain amount Frost risk 9am 3pm
Wind RH Wind RH
°C °C km/h % km/h %
Mostly sunny
15 29 10% < 1mm Nil NNW 12 56 NE 25 50
Mostly sunny
23 36 5% < 1mm Nil E 27 54 E 25 31
Mostly sunny
22 30 5% < 1mm Nil ESE 20 61 ESE 22 53
Mostly sunny
22 30 5% < 1mm Nil E 22 59 ENE 24 55
Sunny
19 30 5% < 1mm Nil E 13 59 E 13 53
Mostly sunny
17 31 5% < 1mm Nil ENE 12 54 ENE 15 37
Sunny
19 37 5% < 1mm Nil NNE 34 44 - -
Sunny
16 39 5% < 1mm Nil NNE 14 17 N 11 13
Windy
20 39 10% < 1mm Nil N 23 13 NW 28 7
Possible thunderstorm
18 36 40% < 1mm Nil N 31 42 NNW 24 17
Mostly sunny
12 27 20% < 1mm Nil N 19 62 NW 17 40
Sunny
16 28 5% < 1mm Nil NE 12 56 NE 21 52
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Weather News

Scottish league players opt for hot shock treatment ahead of Cairns World Cup match

10:04 EDT

As if far north Queensland is not hot enough, Scottish rugby league players this week have been locked inside a chamber heated to 50 degrees Celsius, immersed in 100 per cent humidity.

La Nina watch declared by Bureau of Meteorology but widespread rainfall not on the outlook

19:10 EDT

The chance of a La Nina weather pattern forming later this year is now at 50 per cent, around double the normal likelihood.

Tornadoes in Queensland: Does the Wide Bay region rival the US for the frequency of twisters?

18:00 EDT

Lexly Black still remembers the night in 1992 when her house near Bundaberg in southern Queensland was ripped apart by one of Australia's strongest tornadoes.