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Storms roll through southeast QLD

Drew Casper-Richardson, Sunday September 21, 2014 - 10:15 AEST

A trough has delivered heavy rain and damaging wind gusts to parts of southeast Queensland.

Showers and storms fired up on Saturday afternoon with the heaviest falls occurring around and just to the north of Maroochydore. The Glasshouse Mountains recorded the highest total with 54mm reaching the gauge. Elsewhere on the Sunshine Coast, Coolum West picked up 38mm and Yandina Creek 44mm.

Maroochydore received 30mm in total with 10mm of that falling in as many minutes, enough to cause localised flash flooding. As the storm rumbled over it also brought a sharp drop in temperatures with the mercury shedding nearly six degrees in 13 minutes.

A little further north the exposed Double Island Point recorded a wind gust of 91km/h as a storm rolled through. They also had their highest September rainfall in four years with 22mm, 8.4mm of which fell in 10 minutes.

Sunday will see some showers about the Sunshine Coast although falls are generally expected to remain below 10mm with just the chance of some isolated falls of around 20mm. The stormy activity has already shifted to inland parts of the state with a deepening trough.

- Weatherzone

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