Queenslanders are bracing for several days of extreme weather, including thunderstorms and a scorching heatwave.
The Bureau of Meteorology issued a double warning today as severe storms and brutal heatwave conditions batter large parts of the state.
The thunderstorms are set to hit southern inland parts of Queensland east of Charleville, primarily impacting the Southern Downs and Granite Belt, for most of today.
The worst of the storm will see heavy rainfall over the next few hours.
Thunderstorms are forecast for the north-west and central west belt of Queensland, with conditions set to worsen towards the south-east coast.
Meanwhile, heatwave conditions have been gripping large parts of Queensland today.
In an emergency warning, the bureau said the severity of the temperatures may pose a health risk to the Cape Peninsula area.
Low to severe heatwave conditions are set to impact far north, northern, north-west, central and central-western Queensland today.
Maximum temperatures are forecast to be the high 30s to low 40s while minimum temperatures in the mid to high 20s.
“Severe heatwave conditions are building over the north with isolated pockets of extreme heatwave conditions expected to develop in the coming days,” the Bureau of Meteorology said.
“Severe heatwave conditions are expected to ease over central districts as the heat moves north.”
There is also a heatwave warning in place for the Kimberley and Pilbara regions, and the northern districts in Western Australia until Wednesday,
