Overview
- Daily falls up to 300mm are possible with multi-day totals reaching 500mm to 1m in places, and four-day totals near Cairns could exceed 700mm.
- Flood watch covers much of the state, with major flood warnings for the Gregory and Flinders rivers and flooding reported at Richmond, alongside several moderate and minor alerts.
- Measured totals are already high at multiple sites, including 268mm at South Mission Beach, 177mm at Fish Hole Creek and 149mm at Claraville.
- Normanton is isolated by the Flinders River as Townsville, Cassowary Coast and Flinders disaster groups move to alert status and urge sandbagging and evacuation planning.
- Damaging wind gusts above 90 km/h are possible with isolated destructive gusts around 125 km/h, with conditions forecast to start easing from Wednesday to Thursday but flash-flood danger persisting.