The weather bureau has warned residents in the Queensland’s south-east to prepare for more falls in the coming days.
Queensland faces the risk of flash flooding with more wet weather forecast from Yeppoon on the central coast south to Brisbane.“Over the next three or four days, there could be widespread falls of 50 millimetres to 100mm and isolated falls up to an exceeding 250mm,” Dean Narramore from the Bureau of Meteorology said.
Staff inspect the pitch as rain falls on Monday at the Gabba, holding up play in the cricket Test between Australia and India.Elsewhere, relief is arriving for some sunbaked Australians after several states sweated through one of the hottest December days in years. Parts of Queensland, Victoria, NSW and South Australia topped 45C on Monday, while the Northern Territory faces severe to extreme heatwave conditions for much of the next three days.Extreme fire danger warnings remain in place with high bushfire risks expected across Australia’s south-east.Mount Lofty Ranges in eastern South Australia and most of western and central Victoria, including Melbourne, are under extreme fire danger warnings.
A cool front reached Adelaide and western Victoria by 2pm on Monday but the heat will remain for the rest of the week in Queensland and the NT.
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