SUMMER may not be officially here but Queensland’s summer storms have begun.
The Southern Downs and surrounding regions have been struck by the first storms of the season in the last fortnight.
Fernvale, west of Brisbane, was the hardest hit so far this storm season with several houses losing their roofs when a savage storm passed through in late October.
With a hotter than average October, November has begun with average high temperatures in the Southern Downs reaching the high 20s with lows hovering between 10-15 degrees Celsius. The greater Darling Downs and Granite Belt region will see high temperatures push into the mid-30s as the month progresses.
Storms and showers are expected to close out the week and continue over the weekend while an inland surface trough will move west while weakening as a weak ridge builds along the east coast of Queensland.
Unfortunately the storms have not been enough for our dams with Coolmunda Dam dropping to almost half its capacity at 51 per cent and the Leslie Dam down to 20 percent, which is about 10 per cent down on where it was this time last year.
