- Thunderstorms will move across the east coast on Thursday afternoon
A huge 1,400 kilometer stretch of land along Australia’s east coast is likely to be lashed by thunderstorms, while large hail is expected to fall on parts of Queensland.
The Bureau of Meteorology warned that those living along the coast, from NSW’s Illawarra region to Queensland’s Wide Bay, are in the line of fire for thunderstorms on Thursday.
‘Severe storms with large hail, damaging winds and heavy rain are possible around south-east Queensland and the Wide Bay. There is a risk of very dangerous storms inland,” the agency’s Queensland branch tweeted.
Severe thunderstorms are also possible along the northern half of the NSW areas and adjacent coastal areas.
Central and eastern Australia will be hit by wet weather over the next week
The miserable weather will continue for the next 10 days, Weatherzone said, with central and eastern Australia expected to bear the worst of it.
‘Most of the rain and storms will initially concentrate over Central Australia, Northern and Western SA and Southern WA between Wednesday and Friday, with some wet weather also affecting parts of Tasmania, Victoria, NSW and Queensland ,” the weather service said. said.
‘A deepening low pressure trough should cause showers and thunderstorms to become more active over eastern Australia from the weekend onwards.’
The Bureau of Meteorology warned that those living along the coast, from NSW’s Illawarra region to Queensland’s Wide Bay, are in the line of fire for thunderstorms on Thursday.
The wet and stormy weather will continue into the first half of next week, with some rain expected in every state and territory.
Heavy falls are possible over NSW, Queensland and central Australia.
“Some thunderstorms over the next week are likely to become intense and heavy rain could cause flash flooding in some states,” Weatherzone said.
The wet conditions come at the same time as a heatwave sweeps across central and inland Queensland.
According to the BOM, severe heat waves are expected in central parts of the state on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Longreach, in central Queensland, was a whopping 44 degrees Celsius on Thursday – 8 degrees higher than the average temperature in November.
A woman was killed last Friday when a tree fell on her during catastrophic weather in south-east Queensland.
The 70-year-old is said to have been walking outside when she was struck by the tree in Lockyer Waters just before 6pm on Friday.
Paramedics desperately tried to save the woman for more than an hour, but she died at the scene.
Severe weather in the Lockyer Valley left more than 2,000 people without power as heavy winds, rain and hail poured down.
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