ALL eyes are now on the potentially handy winter rainfall the Bureau of Meteorology is predicting for parts of Queensland over the weekend.
According to BOM a 1029 hectopascal high over south eastern Australian will move slowly eastwards into the Tasman Sea during Friday and weaken, relaxing the associated ridge across the southern half of Queensland.
That weakening upper level trough will contract south eastwards toward and eventually across south east Queensland overnight and on Friday.
BOM says a surface trough and new upper level system will enter the far south west and progress eastwards across southern half of Queensland on Saturday and Sunday, spreading showers and potential thunderstorms across the southern inland and south east.
On Saturday there is a slight to medium chance of showers extending to parts of the central and southern interior along with southern parts of the Channel Country, increasing to a high chance near the southern border regions of the Maranoa and Warrego and Darling Downs.
On Sunday the upper level system and the associated surface trough are expected to progress eastwards and eventually move off the south east coast later Sunday or early Monday.
BOM says there is a slight to medium chance of showers on the east coast, extending to much of the southern Inland, with a high to very high chance of showers in the south east, southern Wide Bay and Burnett and southern Darling Downs districts.
There is also a chance of thunderstorms in the south east and southern inland as the trough passes through.
Minimum temperatures are likely to remain above average across the most of the state. While daytime temperatures, will be near or a slightly above average, especially through interior parts.
BOM says August should be wetter than average in parts of the Northern Territory and most of southern Australia in an area stretching from south eastern Western Australia, across most of South Australia and NSW and into southern and central Queensland.
The bureau also indicates the three month, August to October period, is very likely to be wetter than average (greater than 80 per cent chance) over most of NSW, southern and central Queensland and most of SA, with 65-80pc chance of wetter than average conditions for most mainland states, BOM says.
