SEQ Weather: Storms threaten, inconsistent temperatures expected

Southeast Queensland residents is facing a week where “every day there’s the threat of storms”, as unsettled conditions settle in, putting the weather on edge.

Brisbane and the South East could see storms develop during the week. Picture: Richard Walker

Southeast Queensland residents can expect an “unsettled” week of weather, with storms threatening to hit the region later in the week.

After several storms across the region in recent weeks, Livio Regano from the Bureau of Meteorology said temperatures would be up and down throughout the week but only a small amount of rain expected.

“It’s generally unsettled this week, every day there’s the threat of storms,” the meteorologist said.

“The weather is always on edge but may never deliver.

“There’s a lot of cloud cover around at the moment and some storms across South East Queensland but they will clear by this evening.

“There’s a few showers around right now as well which is just left over from last night’s storms.

“The greatest threat of storms is from Thursday to Saturday – Friday and Saturday especially – I would say less than a 50 per cent chance tomorrow (Tuesday) and Wednesday but around 60 to 70 per cent later in the week.”

Mr Regano said there was an increased chance of rain from Thursday to Saturday across all of South East Queensland, with no areas expected to be hit harder than others because of the weather coming from the west.

He said the amount of rain wouldn’t be very high, with an average of only 1mm expected in the coming days before 15mm is expected on Friday.

Mr Regano also said there would be constant changes in temperature across the region this week caused by changes in wind direction.

“Tomorrow is expected to be quite a bit warmer, going from 24 to 29 degrees but the temperature will change again to 26 on Thursday and then 31 on Friday,” he said.

“It will cool down again on Saturday, going back to 28 but then 30 on Sunday.”