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A cyclone can have two phases, the dramatic build up and crossing of the coast; and then the "leftovers" that can feed another weather system to produce significant rain at a great distance from the cyclone.

Much of Queensland and northeast NSW are the focus of wet weather to end the week and across the weekend.

Tropical moisture will spread another rain system across the the country to end the week and over the weekend. Next week still has tropical moisture, but no connection to low pressure - and instead we'll have two cold outbreaks, and the frost events that follow.