North Tropical Coast and Tablelands Forecast

Weather Situation

A cloud band extends over the southern interior of Queensland ahead of an upper level trough over central Australia. The upper trough and cloud band will shift east over the southern half of Queensland during Thursday and Friday, most likely clearing the southern coast Friday afternoon though there is some uncertainty associated with this timing. A surface trough will also shift east during Thursday and should contract off the southern coast early Friday. A high shifting east over southern Australia will extend a cooler, drier southerly wind flow into western and southern Queensland in the wake of the surface trough. Another upper trough will extend some mid to high level cloud and showers and patchy rain into the northeastern tropics during Thursday and Friday before weakening on Saturday.