Eastern Australia in for extreme weather, wet conditions continue across Queensland

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Eastern Australia is in for some extreme weather conditions, with heat, winds and catastrophic fire danger hitting the east coast. Wet weather will continue across Queensland this weekend, while a ban on open fires is in place today across large parts of New South Wales due to hot, dry and windy conditions.

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00:00In Queensland the heat wave and really sticky conditions roll on but the good

00:05news is that the relief is not far away. Today we are still seeing pockets of

00:09severe heat wave conditions through Brisbane and up the East Coast. Another

00:12very hot and humid day and then into the afternoon we will see more

00:16thunderstorms developing right across the state and we could see severe

00:19thunderstorms across central and eastern parts this afternoon and evening. This

00:23does include Brisbane, the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast and again there is a

00:26risk of heavy rainfall damaging winds and large hail for these communities which

00:30have seen so many days of back-to-back thunderstorms but the good news is that

00:34from tomorrow it will finally see some dry winds coming through from the interior

00:37that will flush all that humidity off the coast and so we are expected to see some

00:42much drier and much more comfortable days across Brisbane and the South East into

00:46early next week so relief is on the way. Okay well heading down south a little bit

00:50more to New South Wales now some hot dry windy conditions expected there and a

00:56fire weather warning as well for parts of New South Wales. Yeah that's right so if

01:00you're on eastern New South Wales today another hot day temperatures reaching the

01:04low to mid 30s all through along the coast but it really will be about that

01:07really strong winds today we've got damaging wind warnings for the Blue

01:10Mountains and down towards the sort of slopes and up towards the southern parts

01:15of Northern Tablelands. With those warm temperatures and very strong winds we

01:18are expecting to see extreme fire danger today so that's for Sydney, the Hunter and

01:22the northwestern slope so there are quite a few active bushfires across eastern New

01:26South Wales so reminding residents today to keep across the forecasted mornings

01:30and follow all directions from RFS today if we do see some of those fires start to

01:34flare up but a very warm and windy day. All right Jonathan we're just heading into

01:38summer now and as I read on your website actually the La Nina is currently

01:43underway what does that actually mean for our summer months? Yes it's hard to

01:48believe that summer kicks off on Monday Monday will be quite an extreme day we've

01:52got 38 degrees in Perth extreme fire danger again in Sydney on Monday but then

01:56snow in Victoria a very cold day there but looking over the next few months we

02:00have declared that a La Nina event is underway so typically with La Nina we do

02:04expect to see wet and quite warm conditions across Australia but this one's

02:08quite unusual in that it's very short-lived very weak La Nina so it's not

02:12really producing any sort of strong wet signal across the country what we can

02:16expect to see though is those warm days of warm nights as we head through the

02:19rest of the summer months. What does that then mean for the summer rainfall

02:23average it will it be under well under the average? So overall because La Nina is

02:30quite looking like a quite weak and sort of short event we're not expecting to see

02:34any sort of strong signal being too wet or too dry across Eastern Australia where we

02:38are expecting to see drier than average conditions is across Western Australia and

02:41inland parts of Queensland but if you are living near the coast particularly across

02:45Eastern Queensland, Eastern New South Wales and Victoria we're not really seeing any

02:49influence on La Nina so it will really depend on what sort of other climate

02:52factors do come into play but of course we are expected to see those very warm

02:56days and nights right across summer

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