39°C for Tuesday and 39+°C on Wednesday, this will be followed by a possible thunderstorm and showers again with slightly cooler conditions. Official Weather report from Bureau of Meteorology follows: GYMPIE: Tuesday... Hot and mostly sunny. Winds northwest to northeasterly 15 to 20 km/h. Fire Danger - Very High. MIN 20° MAX 39° Outlook for Wednesday... Hot. Mostly sunny morning. A shower or two and the chance of a thunderstorm during the afternoon and evening. Light winds. MIN 21° MAX 39° WIDE BAY: Tuesday... Hot. Mostly sunny morning. The chance of showers and thunderstorms inland during the afternoon and evening. Winds northerly and light tending northwesterly 15 to 20 km/h in the morning then turning north to northeasterly 15 to 25 km/h in the late morning and early afternoon. Overnight temperatures falling to between 19 and 22 with daytime temperatures reaching 35 to 40. Fire Danger - Very High. Outlook for Wednesday... Hot. Mostly sunny morning. Isolated showers and thunderstorms inland during the afternoon and evening. Winds north to northwesterly 15 to 20 km/h turning northeasterly and becoming light in the afternoon. Overnight temperatures falling to the low 20s with daytime temperatures reaching 35 to 41. STATE FORECAST: Isolated showers and thunderstorms in a band from the western districts, across the central interior and into the southeast. Showers and thunderstorms over the remaining tropics, tending to rain in the far north. Fine and mostly clear elsewhere. Hot over southern and central Queensland. Light to moderate northeast to northwesterly winds, tending fresh to strong over the southeast during the afternoon and evening. Southwest to southeasterly winds over the southern inland. Fire Danger - Very high to severe through southern Queensland.
Posted on: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 08:31:26 +0000