South East Queensland storms, Energex power outages continue for more than 36,000 homes across region

The Bureau of Meteorology forecast a top of 32 degrees for Wednesday, with a high chance of showers, and the chance of a thunderstorm, possibly severe with damaging winds and large hail.

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Senior meteorologist Miriam Bradbury said storms were possible “pretty much anywhere in Queensland” on Wednesday, except for the far north.

“For Queensland, the main risk is going to be rain for those northern and central areas, but we could see some damaging winds and large hail as well across the south-east,” she said.

“For communities which have already seen a few days of very strong, severe storms, this is yet another day of unsettled weather.

“The risk is most likely through this afternoon and evening.”

Bradbury said temperatures were 3 to 10 degrees above average due to a hot air mass moving over the state, which continued to trigger severe to extreme heatwave warnings for much of Queensland, including Brisbane.

“Those heatwave warnings are likely to continue over the next couple of days,” she said.

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