Thunderstorms are helping parts of southeast Queensland make up for a dry spring, some gaining their highest rainfall since winter. There have been unconfirmed reports of 100 millimetres from storms in the Wide Bay area. Even the smaller storms have brought the biggest rain in months. Yesterday Gympie was hit by an intense storm bringing 23 millimetres of rain in short time, their highest rainfall since June. However, this storm also caused some damage to buildings due to strong winds. Further south in the Darling Downs, Oakey has had two storms in the first two days of summer bringing 17mm of rain, more than in all of November. Oakey has just had its driest spring in seven years, accumulating only 64mm, 106mm short of the average. This early-summer rain is helping make up some of the lost ground but is not enough to make up for the spring deficit. Thursday will be much drier in the southeast as the storm area moves north to central Queensland where they also have the potential to be severe. Damaging winds is the most likely feature. Large hail and flash flooding is also possible. The nature of storms means that some places will miss out altogether, adding to the dry spell.