Heavy rain from ex-Tropical Cyclone Jasper is expected to ease in north Queensland but flood warnings remain across the state.
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00:00 Heavy rain is easing across North Queensland,
00:02 but flooding impacts do remain.
00:04 This is an update for Monday afternoon,
00:06 1.30 p.m. Queensland time,
00:09 as we check out how ex-tropical cyclone Jasper
00:11 continues to impact the far north,
00:13 starting with a look at the rain radar
00:15 from the last few hours.
00:16 Compared to where we've been in recent days,
00:18 there's a lot less rain across this coastline here.
00:20 In particular, finally, a drier stretch of weather
00:23 for some of these places, Cairns and southwards.
00:26 Even Port Douglas has started to see that rainfall ease.
00:29 There's still some areas of rain
00:30 on the northern parts of the tropical coast,
00:32 but there's some gaps in it.
00:33 It's thinned out and it's more patchy
00:35 compared to what we've seen recently,
00:36 and the areas of heavy rain
00:38 have also contracted significantly.
00:41 Even though the rain is easing,
00:42 we do anticipate there to be some flood impacts
00:45 for a while, yet it takes a long time
00:47 for that water to flush out down and through the rivers.
00:49 So there's a number of ongoing flood warnings
00:52 across North Queensland,
00:53 including three major flood warnings
00:55 as of Monday afternoon.
00:57 The Daintree River, the Murray River, and the Herbert River.
01:01 We did have a fourth major flood warning
01:03 earlier in the day today for the Barron River here,
01:05 which has been affecting some northern parts of Cairns.
01:08 However, the river levels have come down there.
01:10 That's a moderate flood warning at the moment.
01:12 Still a dangerous situation,
01:14 but starting to see those flood waters recede.
01:17 A number of other moderate and minor flood warnings
01:19 are in place across this coastline at the moment,
01:21 and there's still a wide array of flood watches
01:24 across North Queensland.
01:26 As rain continues to fall through central areas,
01:28 and even some parts in the west here,
01:30 not just this North Tropical coastline.
01:33 In terms of warnings,
01:34 we still see the one heavy rain warning,
01:36 but that area is starting to shrink, starting to contract.
01:39 The heaviest rain is now north of Port Douglas,
01:41 and we've taken that out of the warning area.
01:44 We're looking up towards Cape Flattery here,
01:46 a pretty small region where we could still see
01:47 heavy to locally intense falls
01:50 over the next several hours through Monday afternoon,
01:53 and into Monday evening.
01:54 Where are we headed after that?
01:56 Well, let's check out Monday and Tuesday's forecast.
01:58 The heavy rain continues to be north of Port Douglas,
02:01 but through Monday and Tuesday,
02:02 it moves further up to the far north of the state,
02:05 and it will be some well-earned drier weather
02:08 making its way into the rest of these sodden,
02:10 saturated areas.
02:13 That is the update for now.
02:14 There's still major flooding going on,
02:16 so you still have to be cautious.
02:17 Number one piece of advice is do follow any information
02:20 and advice given to you by local emergency services
02:22 and emergency management.
02:24 Stay out of floodwaters.
02:25 Remember, if it's flooded, forget it.
02:27 You can always get the latest severe weather information
02:29 at the Bureau website.
02:30 We'll keep you up to date right through this rainfall event.
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