WEATHER UPDATE: RAIN SETS IN

May has been an incredibly dry month – until now.

This is an event when the northern tropics meets the south pole, and we are right underneath this whole event.

A mass of moisture has streamed down from the northern tropics and has linked up with a mass of polar air that has surged in right across the bight. It’s been increasing dramatically today with significant falls and we may see some flooding throughout central QLD and possibly central NSW.

The two systems have now linked up, causing a very impressive satellite image. An upper level cold pool is going to form an intense surface low. During Thursday night that rain will start sweeping across all of the broadcast region and will continue into Friday.

The good news is that the rain band is going to clear quite quickly.

The east cost low is going to be pushed away from us and we’ll see some very cold, very strong south westerly winds.

And we may even see some snow on the Barringtons on Friday night.

There will be a good dump of snow on the Southern Ski Resorts.

It will clear, it won’t be a bad looking Saturday, it’s just going to be very cold and very windy.
It will be the same again on Sunday but then a massive high is going to take over into early next week and we’ll see some coastal showers and some rain periods.

But expect a wet Friday with the passing of this system.