Severe storms and hail have lashed parts of Queensland on Wednesday afternoon, bringing down trees and flooding cars in parts of the south-east.
The Gold Coast saw hundreds of homes lose power as storms caused damage and localised flooding, while hail threatened day one of the Ashes in Brisbane.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) said large areas of Queensland can expect rain and possible severe thunderstorms to continue for the rest of the week, with various areas already on flood watch.
According to BOM, summer season humidity is lending itself to thunderstorm development in a system moving slowly across the state, with the potential for isolated storms to turn severe on Wednesday and Thusday.
Forecaster Helen Reid said the southern half of the state could expect to see the most wet weather.
"We can expect to see severe thunderstorms through the south-east, Darling Downs and up through Central Queensland...there is the potential for some of them to become severe.
"By the time we get to Friday it looks like the system should be pushing through further north and it should just be regular thunderstorms during the course of the weekend."
Ms Reid said a trough moving slowly across Queensland is what will cause the weather to last days.
"We have high moisture levels in the atmosphere, it's also very unstable in the sense that thunderstorms can develop as the air at the surface can continue to rise through," she said.
"And then just moving out to the far south-east during the course of Friday and into Saturday, then that severe thunderstorm action will move further up the coast towards more the central coastal regions."
Be on flood watch
She warned areas prone to flooding to be mindful of any heavy downpours.
"People just do need to keep an eye on what warnings are to be issued from the Bureau with regard to thunderstorms," she said.
"We do have flood watch out for a lot of the south-east and Queensland as well...it is recommend that people keep an eye on how those river levels do change if we get significant rainfalls into the catchments."
On Wednesday, the Bureau of Meteorology said flood warnings were current for many catchments and "major flood warnings" for the Macintyre, Weir, Condamine-Balonne and Dawson rivers.
Current flood warnings are also in place for a further 30 rivers and creeks, including the Noosa River, Logan, Burnett and Brisbane rivers.
