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Rain and storms hit southeast Queensland

Sam Terry
Rain is not only affecting New South Wales; even the 'Sunshine State' Queensland is receiving it's fair share of the falls, according to weatherzone.com.au. To 9am this morning, far southeast QLD was awash with between 30 and 80 millimetres of rain. Coolangatta Airport managed to fill up the rain gauge with 57mm, making it the wettest July day in five years. This now puts the monthly total above average, whereas only a day ago there was a significant deficit. Further north, the Sunshine Coast collected anywhere from 15 to 25mm, not a bad effort. Brisbane didn't miss out on the rain. While northern suburbs recorded around 10 to 15mm the city itself picked up five millimetres, bringing the monthly total to 20mm, well above the total July rainfall from last year. Currently, showers are moving in over the region from the northwest. There is a good chance that another 10 to 30mm will fall across the area overnight, with localised thunderstorms to boot. Tomorrow, the showers will ease during the morning before a return in the afternoon, although not as heavy and widespread as today. Again, there is potential for storms about the region, with damaging wind gusty likely.
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