Despite overnight rain, hot, dry weather and severe fire danger are forecast again this week with the weather bureau expecting temperatures to climb above 40 degrees Celsius in parts of the south.
"It's another repeat of the typical fire weather pattern that we've seen four of five times now over the fire season starting way back in September and happening really every month since then."Over the next few days the winds do drop off a little bit, so the fire dangers aren't quite as bad in that sense, but it is still very hot and very dry.
"It won't be quite as hot as the heatwave we saw late last year, where Cairns saw temperatures well over 40 degrees for three or four days in a row, but still hot enough through the day and the night to trigger our heatwave sort-of threshold," Mr Crock said.
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