There looks to be showers or storms forming off the coast. Well see what the afternoon brings. Those Cowboys where woeful last night.

I am with you on this one, I can see cloud blob on satellite and I can visually see it starting to fill the sky on seaward side, this may be an interesting thing indeed in a few hrs.

Of course there is no forecast of such a thing happening .....

Is this Coral Sea Trough still meant to give good rain to my area or will it track further north ?

I see the marine forecast of 20/25 knots by Wednesday afternoon. Is that giving away a hint.

Forecast for Tuesday
Increasing and isolated thunderstorms.

Mackay: Showers. Possible storm. Min 24

i had to laugh at that one. Classic BOM typing Error

Well just got the boys out to mow the lawn just in case those storms out at sea come Bowen way. Nice and breezy here today.

Both EC and BOM now have the low crossing near Hervey Bay overnight hanging around for a day or so before tracking back up the coast to be off the CQ coast on Thursday morning before washing out. The main difference seems to be that BoM is going for Rain at times on Wednesday and Rain easing on Thursday but EC shows almost no rain on the coast at all.

EC forecast for 4am Thursday from 4th Mar 00Z run.

Current obs @ Cannonvale 1815hrs:
Temp - 28.6
Wind - N/NE 8.6 knots gusting to 11.9 knots
Barometer - 1009.2
Humidity - 95%
Heat Index - 37.5
Dewpoint - 27.9
Rain yesterday - 0
Rain today - 0
MTD - 0.0mm
YTD - 901.2mm

Heavy rain is forecast for us this Friday by WZ, I'm certainly not confident

Good find BC. Also further up the page is this:
Central Coast and Whitsundays District
IDQ10160

UPDATED

Issued at 6:00 pm EST on Sunday 4 March 2012

Warning Summary at issue time
For the latest warning information please check the Bureau's web site www.bom.gov.au/qld

Forecast for the rest of Sunday
A few showers. isoalted storms. Light to moderate E to SE winds.

Mackay: Cloudy with a shower or two. Light to moderate E to SE winds.

Mackay: Shower or two.

We were lucky enough to be under some of the showers that were around on the weekend, got 8mm on both Saturday and Sunday. That kind of weather is going to keep me and my lawn mower very busy.

Yep, the standard WZ forecast on a Monday is for pouring rain on Friday's - which hardly ever happens. Poor modelling

Well it was looking like towards the end of this week would be very wet for most of us...but this low over SEQ and a possible ECL further south will most likely kill our chance for something big like models were predicting (once again!!).

Just walked down Main street Prossy, and it is HOT. Also, there are some beastly looking black clouds to the east. Radar shows that too with some heavy showers towards Conway. Heard of some reports of 40mm around our area for the 24 hours. I've had zip. Grass is growing a couple of cm per day I reckon.

A hot day today!

Eton @ 12:20 PM on 05/03/2012:
Temperature: 32.5°C (23.3°C / 32.8°C) (Heat In.: 39.3°C)
Dew Point: 24.5°C
Humidity: 63%
Wind: NNE at 2 km/hr, gusting to 6 km/hr
Pressure: 1008.44 hPa
Rain: 0.0 mm (since 9am) / 0.0 mm (24 hrs to 9am) (Current Rate: 0.0 mm/hr)

Dew point here is 27 deg. Please feel free to have this dew point. Yukkk.

Dew point here is 29.9 deg with a heat index of 49.5 deg.

Current obs @ Cannonvale 1250hrs:

Temp - 32.9 deg
Wind - E/NE 6.6 knots gusting to 7.2 knots
Barometer - 1009.4
Humidity - 85%
Heat Index - 49.5 deg
Dewpoint - 29.9 deg
Rain yesterday - 0
Rain today - 0
MTD - 0.0mm
YTD - 901.2mm

OMG nearlly drowned in my own sweat. Its a stinken hot day today.

And it's getting worse BC - Dew point now 30.3 deg with a heat index of 50.5 deg (Actual outside temp is 33.2 deg).

I got no doubt it is a stinker but I think 30.3C dewpoint is very likely to be higher than what it actually is.