Partly cloudy with very isolated showers along the east coast, showers tending scattered about the Far North Queensland coast and through Torres Strait. Isolated showers or thunderstorms elsewhere, tending scattered about the southeastern interior and the southern Gulf of Carpentaria coast during the afternoon. Thunderstorms possibly severe about the southern interior. Light to moderate east to southeasterly winds about eastern districts, tending north to northeasterly elsewhere, fresh about far western Queensland. Maximum temperatures above average about western Queensland, below average about the southeast, near average elsewhere.