Southeast Queensland: After severe storm, cool change is coming

Southeast Queensland is anticipating a cool change in coming days after a severe storm delivered more than 100mm of rain in six minutes on Monday.

Storm clouds over Brisbane on Monday. Picture: Liam Kidston

Southeast Queensland is anticipating a cool change in coming days after a severe storm delivered more than 100mm of rain in six minutes during Monday’s night’s deluge.

Flash flooding affected Greater Brisbane on Monday evening after a series of severe storms pushed across from Toowoomba and the Darling Downs to dump heavy rain to the coast. The Bayside and Redlands region, southeast of Brisbane, bore the brunt, receiving 191mm overnight.

The suburb of Alexandra Hills was dealt 95mm in one hour, while a rain gauge at Stewart Road, south of Beenleigh, recorded 110mm rainfall in the six minutes to 7:10pm.

Broadly, Brisbane and the Gold Coast felt 30 to 50mm.

Queensland’s State Emergency Service received at least six calls for help from people who became trapped in floodwaters in their cars; 170 calls for help were made across the southeast on Monday night for leaking roofs, fallen trees and sandbagging.

Cloud cover and cool southerly winds are likely to cause temperatures in the state’s southeast to hover 2-5C below average on Wednesday and Thursday, topping 27C both days.

Sunny weather will return at the weekend.

In the north, Tropical Cyclone Kimi fizzled into a tropical low in the early hours of Tuesday. Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Rosa Hoff said there was a “slim chance” of the storm system reforming as it slowly moves up the coast in the coming days.