FURTHER storms ripped through southern Queensland earlier this week, bringing some of the heaviest February rain in 10 years.
Storms fired up on Monday afternoon, as a result of moist easterly winds colliding with a deep inland trough.
The Channel Country was the main beneficiary, with widespread 24-hour falls surpassing 50mm. The best recorded were:
- Quilpie hit 44mm - their best in 10 years for February.
- Navarra took 48mm - also their best in 10 years for February.
- Gillespie's 60mm and Tambo's 55mm were their best February rain in six years.
The trough is continuing to deliver heavy falls over the inland today, as it migrates west. Although weakening, the trough should still bring some decent rainfall to bone dry parts of the NT and SA.
The rain has added to the really good falls just over a week ago and has seen many places in southwestern QLD record 150 to 300 per cent of their monthly mean already.
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