FORECAST: Wet Friday at the show
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Friday 8am:
SHOW Friday is still looking like a damp affair with the likelihood of between 15-30mm falling today, the Bureau of Meteorology has predicted.
Forecaster Julian De Morten said Gympie and Rainbow Beach are on the boundary of where heavy rain is predicted for our southerly neighbours and the most likely to get the heaviest rain in Wide Bay.
Storms sitting off shore near Bundaberg could add to predicted rain totals if they move on shore, he also said.
"Rainbow beach and Gympie will receive the most out of the Wide Bay district," the forecaster said.
"From Rainbow Beach and Double Island Point to the south east is where we'll get most of the rain."
He said Rainbow Beach could get between 20 and 40mm with a small chance, alongside Gympie, of getting falls up to 50mm or more.
Temperature wise, today is likely to reach 20 degrees in the middle of the day with just a small drop to 15 degrees overnight, much warmer than the average minimum at this time of year.
Mr De Morten said the weather will be moving off shore this evening and early tomorrow morning.
"It will clear offshore by the time most people wake up tomorrow," he said.
Tomorrow's top temperature is predicted to be 25 degrees.
Thursday 7am:
WE know we are going to get wet over the next two days with the rest of Queensland- but just how wet and when?
Predictions are saying Friday is going to cop the brunt of whatever comes Gympie's way, which could be anywhere between 25 to 75 mm across the event, Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Julian De Morten said.
"It's tomorrow when you'll see most of the rain," he told The Gympie Times this morning.
"We have an upper feature causing widespread instability across the whole state.
"A surface trough near Mackay and Townsville will track south into South East Queensland tomorrow causing heavy rain."
The forecaster said Gympie can expect patchy and light rain today that will increase this afternoon and this evening, before heavier falls tomorrow.
"Over the event we should see about 25-50mm in Gympie, and we might even see up to 75mm," he said.
The heavy rain is likely to fall intermittently tomorrow he said, with lighter constant rain either side.
"By the time people wake up on Saturday morning, everything will be over."
The good news for show goers is the cloud covering the region will keep night time temperatures warmer than average for this time of year.
The minimum over the next two nights is predicted to only drop to 15 degrees, four degrees warmer than the usual.
Day time temperatures will be about average at 23 degrees today, 21 on Friday and 25 on Saturday.
Mr Julian De Morten said flash flooding was unlikely in the region, but a possibility if there was a large downpour at once.
"If you start to get between 30-50mm in half an hour that's when you need to pay attention."
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