00:01Yeah, we have a number of thunderstorms and good afternoon right across New South Wales
00:06and Queensland, particularly for our inland areas and some of those severe thunderstorms
00:10are now near the Windsor area and far northern suburbs of Sydney and that's going to get
00:13to the central coast soon and also up through the Darling Downs as well.
00:17Now the reason for this, we've got a trough system that is kind of lingering through eastern
00:21Australia and it's very humid as well if you're in Sydney, Coffs, Brisbane and even further
00:26north in Queensland.
00:26You'll notice the air is really warm and humid and this trough is lifting that warm
00:30humid air and producing these showers, thunderstorms and some of them severe with large hail, damaging
00:35winds and heavy rainfall.
00:37Are we expecting the amount of rain to perhaps cause catchments to overflow and perhaps warnings
00:45of floodings to come over the weekend?
00:48Yeah, it could be something we're looking at early next week.
00:51We're likely to see widespread thunderstorms tonight, tomorrow, Sunday and probably into
00:56Monday over similar areas of New South Wales and Queensland and some of our catchments are
01:00already saturated.
01:01Even some of the storms today around Applethorpe, Stanthorpe have dropped around 40 to 50 millimetres
01:07in about an hour there and we're likely to see more of these isolated 50 to 100 millimetre
01:11falls over the coming days.
01:12So flash flooding is likely with some of these heavier storms where they do occur and we could
01:17see more broad scale flooding, particularly in parts of Queensland, depending on exactly where
01:21all these heavy rain and storms occur.
01:23Is this the usual pattern of weather for this time of the year?
01:28It is.
01:29November is our peak thunderstorm season so we'd see severe thunderstorms about two or three
01:34times a week through eastern Australia but we've been in a very stagnant pattern the last
01:39few weeks.
01:39It kind of all started mid-October and pretty much hasn't stopped since.
01:42So that's why we're just seeing so many storms across much of eastern and northern and even
01:46parts of western Australia as well.
01:48But yeah, it's pretty common for this time of year in November, our peak storm month.
01:52Just going on to your website, I see that there's a heatwave warning across some parts
01:56of Queensland as well, raising the risk of bushfires?
02:01Not so much.
02:02These heatwaves are occurring in our tropical north so the moisture is pretty high in those
02:06areas but it is very hot.
02:07Places like Weepa and Cowan Yama have had almost two and a half weeks at or above 37 or
02:1438 degrees and that's been replicated across parts of the Top End and the Gulf Coast as
02:19well.
02:19So very hot and very humid up there with little storm activity through there but it's very
02:24humid so the fire threat isn't too hard.
02:26The only fire threat is really through western parts of western Australia where we could see
02:30high fire dangers in the next few days.
02:32But thankfully there's so much moisture around the continent at the moment, fire dangers are
02:36pretty low for many of us.
