Qld weather: Some areas to cop 10 months’ rain in a few days

Parts of Queensland will be smashed with as much as 10 months’ worth of rain in just a few days next week. While the southeast will dodge the worst, the Bureau says it will still be a wet week.

Queenslanders are being urged to prepare for a rare weather event that could deliver as much as 10 months’ worth of rain in just a few days, with a guarantee of flooding in some areas.

The Bureau of Meteorology says the heaviest of the rain will occur as a result of a hot, humid air mass colliding with a cold mass moving up from the south.

“The heaviest falls will be most likely along the Whitsunday coastal areas and the Herbert Rivers region, but our models are fluctuating a little bit,” a Bureau spokeswoman said.

Falls of between 200 and 250mm of rain are expected in some parts of Queensland next week. Picture: NCA NewsWire / John Gass

“The Channel Country will also see some pretty heavy rain, which is uncommon for this time of year.”

Sky News meteorologist Thomas Saunders said falls of between 200 and 250mm are expected, with parts of the state’s west receiving “nearly 10 times the monthly average”.

The southeast won’t be immune from thunderstorms and showers.

While it won’t be anything like the downpours experienced earlier this year, the Bureau warns the southern corner will still be in for a wet week.

“Essentially by Sunday night all of Queensland apart from the far western districts will have seen rain and possibly lightning and thunder,” Mr Saunders said.

Next week will see a transition from isolated falls to a combined mass of solid rain likely to develop from Monday and continuing throughout the week.

The southeast will experience a wet week but is set to dodge the worst of the rain.

Mr Saunders said that “most of Queensland east of about Cunnamulla to Winton to Kowanyama will receive at least 50mm of rain” and that flash flooding is almost “guaranteed.”

Falls are expected to exceed those recorded in February for some places outside the southeast corner.

The system is just the latest to smash Queensland after record breaking rainfall attributed to an ongoing La Nina weather system that brought earlier flooding and widespread rainfall across the south east.