North Queensland heatwave: Temperatures to soar, BOM says
The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a heat-wave warning for much of North Queensland, with temperatures to approach 40 degrees in Charters Towers.
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The Bureau of Meteorology has issued a heat-wave warning for much of North Queensland, with temperatures to approach 40 degrees in Charters Towers.
Hinchinbrook’s Local Disaster Coordination Centre (LDCC) released the BOM warning on Monday afternoon revealing that a low-intensity heatwave was currently affecting a wide swathe of Queensland from as far south as Gladstone, as far west as Mt Isa and as far north as the tip of Cape York.
“Severe” heat-wave conditions were in effect between Charters Towers and Richmond, north of Port Douglas, large parts of Hinchinbrook and inland from Mackay.
The severe heat-wave was expected to intensify north of Port Douglas on Tuesday, according to BOM.
Temperatures in Ingham are expected to reach as high as 34 degrees on Wednesday, with potential thunderstorms forecast for Thursday and Friday in more bad news for the sugar-cane harvest.
Conditions in Townsville, by way of comparison, have temperatures peaking at 32 degrees on Wednesday and Thursday with a potential thunderstorm on Friday.
Temperatures in Charters Towers are forecast to hit 27 degrees on today and Tuesday and 38 on Wednesday, dropping to 33 on Thursday when a potential thunderstorm in forecast.
A BOM spokesman said the heatwave would peak in the north-east on Tuesday and Wednesday “when we’ll have a lot more cloud and shower activity returning across the north-east tropics in the second half of the week”.
“It’s going to be hot and then we have a cooler, well lower temps, but probably increased humidity and wet weather, particularly on Thursday, Friday.”
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