Heavy rain and flooding continues in north Queensland

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Flood risks around parts of Far North Queensland.

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00:00Heavy rain and major flooding continuing across northern Queensland but finally

00:05after a wet two weeks some reprieve is on the way for northern Queensland but

00:09firstly as another wet night and day across much of northern Queensland we

00:14saw widespread falls of 50 to 150 millimetres from Cowan Yama all the way

00:19down through the peninsula, North Tropical Coast, Herbert and Luberdican

00:22with even moderate to heavy falls around the central coast and Whitsundays. But in

00:26the last six hours I want you to point to the circulation we're starting to see

00:29in the radar and that indicates that a low is developing along the monsoon

00:33trough and the good news with that is it's starting to continue moving

00:37eastwards and that means it's going to contract the rain finally away from our

00:41flood affected areas of Queensland but we still have a wet 24 hours to go and

00:46that's why we have a severe weather warning current from Tully all the way

00:50down to Bowen, Prosperpine and Hamilton Island. What that means if you live in

00:54this highlighted area or know someone that does, further forecast rainfall will

00:58lead to flash and riverine flooding and we could see falls of 100 to 200

01:02millimetres in this area in the next 24 hours with isolated tough totals in

01:06excess of that. A particular concern now already flood affected communities around

01:11Cardwell, Ingham, Rollingstone and down to Townsville where any additional heavy

01:15rainfall will likely lead to rapid river responses and because of all this

01:20rainfall over the last week or two we do have many flood warnings current across

01:25much of northern Queensland. A particular concern our residents and communities

01:29that live on and near any flood affected rivers that includes major flooding on

01:33these red highlighted areas including the Flinders River, the Cape River as

01:37well as the Herbert River and the Horton River around Townsville area. We're also

01:42seeing moderate flooding and a number of other rivers around Queensland with

01:46minor flooding also in the green and flood watches current for large parts of

01:50the peninsula and around the Gulf Country as further rainfall in these

01:54areas were likely to lead to flash and possible riverine flooding and more

01:59rainfall is on the way. Let's look at that in more detail so today widespread

02:04showers and rain as you saw in the radar earlier continuing around from Port

02:08Douglas all the way down to around Proserpine and our flood affected

02:11communities but notice as we move into tonight and tomorrow we'll see a low

02:15developing off the shore and continuing to move away from the coast and it's

02:19going to really dry things out along much of eastern Queensland and you can

02:23note by Thursday morning pretty dry conditions across much of eastern

02:27Queensland as southerly winds bring drier air and the monsoon trough moves

02:30north as well contracting rainfall to northern parts of Queensland and over

02:35the next few days total rainfall mostly in that 25 to 75 millimetres that we

02:41could see widespread 50 to 150 millimetres along our flood affected

02:45area some Innisfail down to around Bowen but most of this rainfall will fall in

02:49the next 24 hours and then finally we're going to see a clearance as we

02:53move into Thursday and Friday with the rainfall contracting to north of Cairns

02:57into the Peninsular District. So our last day of heavy rainfall and severe weather

03:03conditions likely from Tully down to Eyre with heavy falls possible between

03:07Cardwell and Eyre. So if you live in this area or know someone that does make sure

03:11you stay up to date the latest forecasts and warnings by our website and app and

03:15listen to all advice from emergency services.

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