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Thunderstorms flare up over QLD for the third day

Kim Westcott, Wednesday October 29, 2014 - 17:49 AEDT

Like the night before, a broad line of storms stretched out across the state from Bundaberg to Camooweal on Tuesday.

On Tuesday evening the skies opened up over Emerald, bringing 10mm within ten minutes. By the time the storm had passed, over 30mm was left in the rain gauge. For Emerald, this is the heaviest October rainfall in seven years. Along with the most intense part of the storm, winds gusted to 74km/h.

Falls were also heavier in parts of the Bundaberg area, with 19mm collected at Woongarra Pump Station and 10mm at Moore Park. Further south, Childers South picked up 21mm, with the reports of pea size hail. Larger hail was reported near the coast, around three-to-four-centimeters in diameter.

Thunderstorms have flared up again this afternoon, with the Central Highlands and Coalfields and the Northern Goldfields and Upper Flinders districts seeing the first bolts. Storms have since stretched into parts of the Central West as well as up into the Gulf country. Slower moving storms may bring heavier falls like they did at Emerald yesterday, but generally moisture level are not high enough to bring decent rain. Typically falls have been less than a few millimeters at best.

These storms are due to a stubborn low pressure trough which has been near-stationary over the past three days. This trough is likely to linger around until at least the end of the week and into the start of next week, with mother nature providing a stunning light show every night in at least some part of Queensland.

- Weatherzone

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