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Eastern storms continue

Ben Domensino, Monday November 28, 2016 - 12:21 AEDT

Severe thunderstorms will continue to affect parts of Queensland and New South Wales at the beginning of this week.

Storms have emerged over parts of eastern Australia each day since Friday, thanks to a broad and slow-moving trough of low pressure. Warm and moist air north of this trough clashing with cooler, drier air to the south have provided an ideal environment for storms to bubble to life.

A number of intense and slow-moving storm cells stuck southeast Queensland on the weekend, leaving some suburbs of Brisbane underwater. Brisbane Airport received a month's worth of rain in two hours on Saturday morning, which was the heaviest November rain in at least 22 years. Further east, Ransome and Mount Cotton both registered 80mm in a single hour.

Sunday's storms were mainly confined to inland areas of southeast, central and northwest Queensland and northeast New South Wales. Warnings were issued in both states for large hail, damaging winds and heavy rainfall.

The heaviest falls yesterday occurred near Dalby, where Bell Police Station had a month's worth of rain (71mm) and Belgrea Park had heaviest November rain in eight years (61mm). Charters Towers registered 37mm, their heaviest November rain since 2010.

Today, storms will redevelop near the trough from northwest Queensland down to northeast and possibly central New South Wales.

Like yesterday, most of today's storms will remain inland away from the coast in Queensland, although the Hunter coast and Mid North Coast in New South Wales could be affected.

Severe storms are a good chance in both states today. Heavy rain, flooding and hail are the main threats, as thunderstorms will once again be slow moving.

Thunderstorms will develop over both states again on Tuesday and Wednesday as the slow-moving trough continues to govern the weather across eastern Australia.

This will round out a stormy end to spring for the east, before things calm down a bit for the opening days of summer.

- Weatherzone

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