Storms last night have dumped the best rain in months across places across the interior and north. Longreach got 43mm, their best rain since three summers ago. Cairns copped an outstanding 103mm in a particularly-moisture laden storm, where 13mm of this fell in just 10 minutes. This is the heaviest January rain in three years. Further in the eastern inland, Emerald had their best January rain in six years, at 42mm in the gauge, with 16mm of this falling in 10 minutes. After a burst of widespread, heavy rain in late December, it has remained mostly dry in northern QLD except for isolated rainfall from thunderstorms. Although the monsoon trough is beginning to become increasingly more active in the eastern Indian Ocean, it looks to be several more weeks before it becomes established over the QLD tropics. Thunderstorms continue to be a risk each day this week as a low pressure trough remains active throughout the region. Isolated, heavy rainfall is on the cards across large parts of QLD.