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Rain covers southeast Queensland

In what has turned out to be a good few months for southeast QLD rainfall, 36 hour falls of 5 to 40mm stretching from Charleville, east to Brisbane and north to Marlborough, are still welcome.

Williamson and Samuel Hill topped the state with 39 and 38mm respectively, whilst the Gold Coast recorded 34mm.

Brisbane city recorded 23mm, its highest rain in over 1 month.

This is climatologically the time of year when we start seeing an increasing number of rainfall events over southeast QLD.

The widespread wet is being caused as very humid northeasterly winds feed moisture from the Tasman Sea into a trough over the Queensland inland that extends into the upper atmosphere.

Further totals of 10 to 20mm can be expected Friday night, mostly in the area demarcated by Rockhampton, Longreach, Charleville and Brisbane.

- Weatherzone

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