Southeast wakes to chilly start before wet weather closes week
Temperatures have dropped in Queensland’s southern corner, with apparent temperatures of -5C near the border and single-digit temperatures in Brisbane. It comes ahead of a wet end to the week.
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Temperatures have dropped below zero across southern Queensland, with Applethorpe recording an apparent temperature of -5C this morning.
Residents closer to the coast have also woken to single-digit temperatures ahead of more wet weather at the end of the week.
It was much colder on the Darling Downs and Granite Belt, with Applethorpe hitting -2.6C just before 7am, with apparent temperatures of -5C.
At Dalby it was 1.3C, but felt like -2.8 with the temperatures dropping below zero at Warwick, with an apparent temperature of -2.1.
Further west, temperatures in St George, Roma and Charleville all fell below zero, with a feels-like temperature of -3.8C in St George at 6.40am.
The mercury dropped to 8.3C in Brisbane just before 7am, with an apparent temperature of 7.2C.
In the city’s west it was 4.5C at Archerfield and 2C at Amberley, near Ipswich, with an apparent temperature of 2.3C.
Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Shane Kennedy said cooler and drier air from the west had caused temperatures about the southeast to drop 2-3C below average for July.
“It’s comparable to what we saw about a week or a fortnight ago when we had that considerable cold snap,” he said.
“We had some cooler and drier air pushing in from the west, just in the wake of that last change that we saw come through over the weekend.
“We’re sitting under a ridge of high pressure over the state ... It’s keeping those skies fairly clear and the winds quite light, which allows it to get quite chilly.”
Brisbane will warm up to 21C with fine and sunny conditions before another wet end to the week.
Mr Kennedy said wet weather is expected to push through southern Queensland on Thursday and Friday before clearing for a mostly sunny weekend.
“Mostly a bit of a coastal shower tomorrow, generally around the 50 per cent chance of rain in Brisbane, that goes up to about 60 per cent chance around the Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast.
“The proper trough is expected to push through on Friday, so that could trigger some showers and potentially a thunderstorm inland.”
That trough is expected to be faster moving with significantly less showers than what hit southern Queensland late last week.
Surfers Paradise could receive up to 15mm on Friday and 3mm on Saturday.
“At this stage, it looks like it will all clear out by the weekend,” Mr Kennedy said.
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