Central Highlands and Coalfields Forecast

Weather Situation

A coastal trough, lying through Capricornia waters, is combining with an upper trough to produce frequent showers and rain areas about the Wide Bay and Burnett and Capricornia districts. The coastal trough should move slowly northwards overnight and through Saturday whilst gradually weakening. Another surface trough over the interior of the state will move north and east overnight, moving through the far southeast of the state on Saturday morning. The upper trough will shift into central Queensland on Saturday, maintaining some isolated showers and possible storms across the central and northern interior. A new high will move slowly eastwards across the south of the continent over the weekend and early next week, extending a ridge into much of Queensland. Showers will therefore continue about parts of the east coast in the onshore flow whilst much of the interior will become fine and mostly sunny from Sunday.