Ex-Cyclone Alfred live updates: ‘Get inside, up high’: Scary warning for QLD

Residents have been issued scary warnings as direct threats to homes and lives become a dangerous reality.

South East Queensland and northern NSW are in it for the long haul with ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred, forecasters have warned, with severe weather and flood warnings still in place for large parts of the east coast.

The ex-tropical low moved inland overnight after crossing Bribie Island, delivering category 1 cyclonic wind gusts of up to 104km/h in Redcliffe and 95km/h in Toowoomba, according to the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM). A category 1 cyclone has wind gusts of between 63 and 88km/h.

Emergency services in Hervey Bay have carried out multiple rescues today after hundreds of millimetres of rain smashed the region in a matter of hours, in one of its worst weather emergencies on record.

Heavy rainfall will intensify as the system makes its way further west before heading south over the NSW border. Parts of Brisbane and northern NSW could get more than 100 millimetres of rain on Sunday, while falls of up to 200 millimetres are forecast for parts of the Gold Coast.

More than 320,000 homes across South East Queensland and 16,000 across northern NSW remain without power.

Flash flooding has hit Hervey Bay hard and parts of Brisbane.

Read on for the latest updates

Originally published as Ex-Cyclone Alfred live updates: ‘Get inside, up high’: Scary warning for QLD