More severe thunderstorms are forecast on Thursday for parts of south-east Queensland and north-east New South Wales. This includes the areas which were recently impacted by severe storms on Wednesday.

Yesterday we saw storms form across both states from the late morning and into the early afternoon. So the day those storms pushed out east towards the coast, with some storms tending severe across the Mid North Coast and Northern Rivers of New South Wales, and one storm cell bringing very heavy rainfall to the eastern suburbs of Brisbane and then into the evening.

Storms pushed off the Wide Bay coast in Queensland and we did see further thunderstorms move out over the water, leading to a clear start to Thursday. But that sets the scene for more severe thunderstorms through the day. So let's jump into today's thunderstorm forecast.

You can see thunderstorms are forecast across a broad area of both Queensland and New South Wales. But the focus yet again will be across south-east Queensland and down into northern New South Wales. We do have this area in yellow where severe thunderstorms are possible.

That extends from about Bundaberg down into south-east Queensland, out towards the Darling Downs and down towards the Northern Rivers of New South Wales. There is also an area of red where thunderstorms are likely to become severe, and that extends from the Wide Bay area down through the western suburbs of Brisbane and into the far north-east corner of New South Wales, so severe thunderstorms again today could generate damaging winds above 90 km/h.

Heavy rainfall leading to flash flooding as well as large hail. Severe thunderstorms can cause significant impacts and having a look at some of those, hail can cause damage to property as well as to people who might be outside outdoors.

Wind can cause damage to trees and cause power lines to topple over, which can cause utility outages and flash flooding, and localised river rises are possible, especially where the ground is already quite saturated.

So if you are in these areas today, do check for the latest forecast and warnings.

Now, if you look ahead to the next days, starting off with Friday, we can see here that severe thunderstorms are again possible across south-east Queensland and north-east New South Wales from about the Sunshine Coast down towards the Mid North Coast of New South Wales.

But if we zoom out and take a look at Friday, we can see that again. Thunderstorms are forecast across much of Queensland, even extending into the Northern Territory, where some of those might become severe, including around the Alice Springs area on Saturday.

We do see that large parts of northern Australia are again expecting thunderstorms, and we do have an area of yellow already where severe thunderstorms are possible, and that's through parts of southern inland Queensland and also an area indicated around the Sydney metropolitan area.

These areas you see here will be updated each day and we'll be keeping you updated on those forecasts. So do check back with us as we head into the weekend.

And now having a day-by-day look, if we have a look at Thursday afternoon and into the evening, we can see thunderstorms forming up across that area of north-east New South Wales and south-east Queensland.

We'll see those storms gradually easing up as we head into the evening. We could still see a few showers and storms kicking around and then redeveloping on Friday right across the region and then on Friday night.

And as we head into Saturday, we do see that another surface trough pushing into inland Queensland that will reinvigorate showers and thunderstorms and rain across a very broad area.

So you can see here plenty of rain and thunderstorms on Saturday. And then as we head into Sunday we do see very similar conditions. That trough starts to push towards the east coast, but showers, storms and rain do persist over a very broad area so large areas could see back-to-back days of fairly scattered to widespread thunderstorms and showers.

So having a look at that out to Sunday night, we can have a look at the total forecast rainfall. This is just one computer model scenario, but it does show where areas could see higher rainfall totals over the coming days.

And we can see that for these red shades through here, we're between 50 to 100 mm is possible for central and south-eastern Queensland and down to north-east and eastern parts of New South Wales, as some areas could see even higher isolated falls, depending on where some of those storms do move and develop.

And again, this is just one model scenario. It is important to check your latest local forecast over the next couple of days. But on Thursday, more severe thunderstorms are forecast across south-east Queensland and north-east New South Wales and this will continue into Friday in some areas.

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