Central Coast and Whitsundays Forecast

Weather Situation

A weakening low pressure system off the northern New South Wales coast extends a near stationary surface trough onto the southern Queensland coast just south of Fraser Island. This feature is likely to remain near stationary today, and then drift southwards while decaying on Friday. A large high over the southeastern Tasman Sea extends a ridge along with east coast, which will strengthen slightly in the next few days as the southern Queensland trough decays. This will lead to a modest increase in moisture in the onshore flow along the Queensland coast and over eastern inland districts. An upper trough and associated surface cold front will move into far southwestern Queensland on Friday, and then move slowly eastwards while gradually weakening over the weekend. This feature may generate some isolated showers, patchy light rain areas and possible a few thunderstorms over the southern interior.