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Queensland temperatures plummet

In Queensland and northern NSW today widespread showers caused maximum temperatures to stay well below average for the second day in a row.

Toowoomba only reached a high of 15.6 degrees today, nine degrees below average and the states coldest maximum temperature. Elsewhere in the state Kingaroy reached a top temperature of 17.7 degrees, 10.2 degrees below average, but still 1.3 degrees warmer than yesterday. Yesterday’s maximum of 16.4 was their coldest October day in four years.

Yesterday Brisbane only reached 19.3 degrees, their coldest day in two months and their coldest October day in at least eight years. The cold weather has been the result or cool onshore winds and an inland trough which has brought widespread showers and storms over the last few days. Brisbane received 23 millimetres yesterday to help with its coldest day in eight years.

- Weatherzone

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