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Falls and flooding for Queensland's Central Coast

Sam Terry, Monday February 8, 2016 - 15:04 AEDT

As expected, the rainfall totals were of the order of hundreds of millimetres on the Central Coast and Capricornia of Queensland over the course of the weekend, with some places having their largest falls this wet season.

A deep trough and associated low lingered over the region between Bowen and Rockhampton, allowing thundery rain to deliver high totals. Mount Jukes, just on the coast north of Mackay, recorded the highest 24 hour total of the weekend, 252mm to 9am on Saturday. Sarina, on the other side of Mackay, recorded a similar amount to 9am, 237mm. Generally, this Friday-into-Saturday time was the wettest for the region, bringing 100-150mm to many places.

Riverine flooding also resulted from these rains, with moderate flooding in the Isaac and Dawson River systems. Bureau of Meteorology warnings still exist for these rivers.

The weather did abate gradually over the weekend as the trough slowly headed north. Mackay Met Office is the perfect case in point, recording 108mm to 9am Saturday, 58mm to 9am Sunday, and 23mm to 9am today. This was their highest 3-day accumulation since February 2014. For Mount Jukes, the 3-day rainfall accumulation was the highest for February since 2009.

The next few days will see the trough responsible for such wet weather continue to shift further north, with the focus of any rain and storms either across the Peninsula or skirting the coast north of Townsville. Daily rainfall totals are unlikely to be quite as high as they were, and residents of the Central Coast and Capricornia can expect only isolated coastal showers for the rest of the week.

- Weatherzone

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