Rain, thunderstorms a chance in Brisbane after warm stretch

Rain is on the cards for Brisbane with an outside chance of thunderstorms following a stretch of warmer weather.

Up to 15 millimetres could fall on Tuesday as a trough approaches south-east Queensland, the Bureau of Meteorology believes, with wet weather likely to return later in the week.

Bureau of Meteorology senior meteorologist Liam Smart said it was difficult to forecast exactly how the week would play out.

“It’s a bit of a messy set-up over the next couple of days,” he said.

“You can get 15 millimetres tomorrow potentially, but you could also end up with nothing.

“It’s purely dependent on where those thunderstorms fall.

“Realistically, tomorrow is looking at our best chance for some higher falls, and then grading off as we [go] into the rest of the week and then the weekend looks a little bit better again for showers.”

Smart said temperatures would probably cool substantially later in the week.

The top temperature in the Brisbane area was expected to fall to about 21 degrees from late Wednesday, about seven degrees below average for the time of year.

The mercury reached just short of 30 degrees in the early afternoon of Saturday and Sunday.

The weather bureau warned of severe storms across south-east Queensland in early October, but Brisbane was largely spared from the worst of the brunt.

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