00:00This system that's triggered so many of these showers and thunderstorms that have lashed
00:06the southeast is starting to move north.
00:08We're expecting areas in the north and western parts of the state to be impacted by rainfall
00:13throughout today, but the concern is that this downpour in the southeast has left a
00:18significant mark.
00:19There are now emergency watch and act alerts that have been issued for, as you mentioned,
00:23the South Burnett and Western Downs region.
00:26Local councils have said that the main concern is that days of intense rainfall have left
00:31catchments incredibly saturated and as well, roads have been inundated and cut off.
00:36If you look online to the Queensland Traffic website, there are dozens of road closures
00:40in place due to that flash flooding.
00:42Now, the police have also said that they've issued text message alerts to residents in
00:46those regions that are impacted.
00:48They're urging residents to prepare to leave if that water level does continue to rise.
00:53Of course, there is that major flood level warning that's in place for the Logan River
00:58at Bow Desert.
00:59That peak is expected to hit sometime this morning and there is also still a moderate
01:03flood warning that's in place, that's been in place for days for the Mary River as well.
01:08Now, as for SES call outs, in the last 24 hours there's been more than 145 call outs
01:13for assistance.
01:14A lot of those have been concentrated to the Brisbane and Moreton Bay region and that's
01:18for issues like tarping as well as sandbagging.
01:21We've also heard from the South Burnett Region's Mayor, Donita Potter, who says that rain,
01:26the intensity of the rainfall that we've seen in the last few days, they haven't seen this
01:29for quite some time.
01:32There's people there that have got water that they've sort of cut off and they had not seen,
01:37and we're talking people for over 50 years that haven't seen the water that we've seen
01:43in this last couple of days.
01:45Our dams are full, they're all spilling over.
01:49It's really quite incredible to see.
01:51This is more water, I think, I would think this is more water than what we've had in
01:552011 floods.
01:58But Ari, we do have some reprieve for residents in the South East.
02:03Yeah, that's certainly right, Ruby.
02:06So this southerly that pushed a lot of these thunderstorms and showers here to the South
02:10East has also pushed away the moist air flow offshore, so that is sort of settling conditions
02:16here in the South East.
02:17As you can see here in Brisbane, it has cleared up significantly.
02:20It looks very different to what it did 24 hours ago.
02:23We are expecting conditions to get drier as we head into the weekend.
02:26The main concern now is going to be a tropical low that could potentially develop in the
02:31Coral Sea from tomorrow.
02:33While it might not develop into a tropical cyclone, it is threatening to bring a lot
02:37of rain to communities in the far north, so residents are being told to brace for that.
02:41Now the forecast for the remainder of December in the South East does look a lot more settled
02:45and dry.
02:46However, there is that flood risk that looks likely to return as we head into the new year.
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