Showery conditions across Brisbane and the state’s south-east will help push the region into a cooler pattern after the coldest day since the throes of last winter.
Saturday’s top of 21 degrees in the city was the coldest maximum temperature in Brisbane since August, and the coldest April day since 2022, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
“Not record-breaking, but definitely a notable chill yesterday thanks to that cloud,” meteorologist Harry Clark said.
“And while we’re not expecting it to be as cold over the next few days, it certainly will be below average in terms of temperature, by a couple of degrees.
“Around, say, 24 [to] 25 [degrees] through to the beginning of May. So … a bit of a cooler pattern now, thanks to those showery conditions we’re expecting.”
This is despite April – referred to by Clark as a transition month, when the beginning is typically warmer than the end – seeing a maximum of 28.6 degrees so far, compared to the 27-degree average.
Meanwhile, locations across the south-east picked up rainfall totals up to about 25 millimetres in the 24 hours to 9am on Sunday, with showers expected across the next seven days.
Clark said this would help what has been an otherwise very dry April, which is likely to finish with rainfall totals below average.
“It’s been virtually dry throughout April,” he said of both Brisbane, the south-east, and much of southern Queensland.
“We’ve managed to pick up 20.2 millimetres in the city for April thus far, but that still leaves us a fair way below the average, which is around 64 millimetres.”
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