Heavy Rainfall and Severe Storm Forecast to Smash Queensland as a Strong Tropical Low Makes Landfall

[@cyclonesoz]

Morning all hope we are all high and dry in North QLD. Check out this mornings text update on Facebook here: facebook.com/share/p/1GJai4H2Sw/?mibextid=wwXIfr

[@kartwheelkarl]

Thanks for the updates Josh. You seem to be so much better at telling us what’s actually going to happen than the BOM or our local council here in Townsville! Virtually no info at all from them until the system began to show itself yesterday. Kids were stuck in schools because roads were flooded and parents were struggling to pick them up. And even this morning, people have been saying that it won’t be anywhere near as bad as 2019 (which was awful!) The Ross River Dam is currently at 113% and rising, and the Townsville Disaster Group have just sent out a text message saying residents of Idalia, Oonoonba, Hermit Park, Rosslea, Railway Estate and Cluden should prepare to evacuate with ‘dangerous flooding expected in the next 24 hours’.

[@newgabe09]

ya it's crazy eh. How do people evacuate at such a late stage! To where? How!

[@rayviator4080]

Hi Josh, we are in Mission Beach just above Tully. Just wanted to thankyou for your accurate report yesterday that our area would receive the brunt of the rain. We are used to LOTS of rain but really helped us plan and prepare. So sitting inside now with all the jobs done watching the rain bucketing down and listening to the frogs. Cheers.

[@Timbuctoo]

I think the rain around Mackay has been underestimated. It is intense here at the moment.

[@WayneSquires]

Hi Josh, Thanks for your service. We have hit the 600ml mark here in Forrest Beach for the week this morning. It looks like we may double that by tomorrow arvo. Intense here at the minute.

[@meganfisher8410]

Thanks Josh. 😊

[@beansprout1308]

Thanks Josh 🌬🌧🌀

[@wendymorgan6651]

A few beers and a couple of hot ones and it will all breeze by

[@tasd5673]

That's what I'm talking about Wendy, relax people don't stress

[@jimthurgood5364]

Thank you, Josh. Love your work!

[@diesel9522]

Love watching your forecasts you are so informative. We live in Cairns and watch every clip you put up. Great work thankyou !!!

[@Micko1987]

I live in Ingham and creeks and rivers are over, I'm currently stuck and can't go anywhere, as of right now it's still coming down steady

[@tprobst84]

Thank you for your updates. Im in Townsville and there has been no help from our council at all. No sandbags and No mainstream media coverage up here. The evacuation centre only opened yeterday and it was already too late for some people to leave. So thank you for your help and advice.

[@tasd5673]

I'm here it's not that bad it's north Queensland get a grip

[@Irldoge]

Mate the sandbags came out 2 days ago

[@benny82ish]

Yeah sandbags were out yesterday morning in mount low.

[@clintoncyrilvoss4287]

Councils helping people , really what planet do you live on , they just want ya rates money for there long lunches there not helping none ever period.

[@8marcrara11]

thank you Josh⚡️⚡️ goodonya 👍🇦🇺

[@ItsThatAussieChick]

Thank you 👍

[@benwinter2420]

The WEF's weather forecasting crystal ball in action again

[@MP-ep9ur]

Thank you so much. You provide a life saving service. There is no other way for the general public to get this information. I hope you get SES sponsorship and government emergency services funding. Thank you

[@annemacpherson916]

Great advice Josh 🫶🏽🙏🎈👍🏽

[@aussietracey1]

last night in Cairns heaps of lighting and one hell of a crack of thunder. scared the shit out of us. my cat bolted under the bed

[@terryogrady4479]

Hey Josh, there is a record in the Guiness Book of Records of 1140mm in 24 hours at Bellenden Ker on 4th January 1979.

[@Irldoge]

Hey mate the bohle river is pronounced bol-ee oh also went to the dam and it’s roaring down the spillway and it’s starting to get crazy with cyclonic winds around Alligator creek and sideways rain

[@magneticzen]

Yes we got flooded roads on magnetic shelves are not flash either

[@BobSmith-ew5oi]

Morning Josh-Fine here until afternoon widespread storms fire up. Pressure a nice healthy 1003so still chance of some good storm rainfall.Not sure if Darwin get monsoon onset yet as trough seems a little bit bare across top end so may miss monsoon break for another three weeks.Wettest this month: 20.0mm (01 Feb 2025) Wettest FEBRUARY on Record: 1287.0mm (2000) Driest FEBRUARY on Record: 30.4mm (1990 cheers Bob

[@darrylweidenhofer]

HI Josh at Atherton 27c muggy rainy

[@craigtomkinson2837]

Lovely Ep, We had 700mm in 7 hours at Cootharaba north of Noosa, around 9 years ago but it never fell over a fisall rain gauge so does not count

[@justabloke1806]

Flooding in Ingham atm and rain just belting down But that’s nth Queensland for ya.

[@malmunro5711]

Overcast in Cairns very little rain must be south of cairns

[@newgabe09]

Seems you've commented just seeing the title, before actually watching the video.. Try watching this vid/ his others and check a decent visual forecast site like Windy and you'll see the main of it is indeed south of Cairns.

[@scotty5166]

​@@newgabe09Lol no need they got it spot on without needing any of that 😂

[@angieford6012]

Just south of Cairns!.. raining on and off all day, sun did peek out for 15 mins...

[@BugzillaTd]

What weather website is josh using? I have used it myself but i can't remember it

[@josiahthomas8283]

Windy

[@BugzillaTd]

Cheers

[@chrisdoran7596]

100mm overnight at Bushland Beach🌨🤠👍

[@turtle-frogs]

Someone, turn the tap off, please. 🌦🦆

[@KatieRobinson-p2j]

Geoengineering at its finest, they aren't even forming normally. I wonder why TSV is the target.

[@damiencondo7187]

They have been spraying not stop this last month!

[@slipperyjoines6629]

Also, the help NEVER gets activated. Ffs. Think Lismore, think Victorian Fires, think California fires. Textbook tactics. I know, you know,we know

[@Yahuah780]

Have you seen the radar? Do you study it? It's very very abnormal because of DARPA haarp electromagnetic radiation etc etc imagine what n a s a is doing when they have their own cloud rain machine (decades old)

[@tanyamaree6432]

Marked for a smart city.

[@islandhopper7224]

Bunch of crackheads the lot of ya

[@tasd5673]

We are fine in Townsville, idalia based lakes went high but that was the tide yesterday. Why do peoole complain its noeth Queensland. If you want thw council to help ans rhen complain about the coat of rates what do you want? Be self sufficient you dum boomers. Its not a fire its a flood be smart and your fine

[@tasd5673]

We also have the Dam under control people relax in Townsville I feel sorry for Forrest beach but as I said it's not fire

[@violettaylor1374]

Just seen footage from Rollingstone ,down the hill from us…🦆🦆🦆 also Paluma Ranges 🦆🦆🦆 also the whole darn region 🦆🦆🦆

[@Nas-2-y3o]

Hi Josh can you talk slower

[@Annie-zw3pk]

Adjust your playback speed on the video under settings :)

[@Nas-2-y3o]

@ thank you

[@slipperyjoines6629]

​@@Annie-zw3pk75 percent, works a treat.

[@chaseadams5037]

Hi guys, wishn ya all the best up north aye, hi Josh yeah nah it's a bit of a ruff time up there mate. Glad I'm not up there aye but the fellas up there are tuff mate👍 we jus gotta help em however we can after its all over I reckon. Maybe send them ya unused shoes n whatnot. I had a pretty gud breky this mornin, snags n bacon n eggs. It was not bad. Neighbours had a punch up n the cops came, the fella tried to bail out off the back balcony, slipped on the roof n landed sideways on me fence mate! 😂😂😂. He was a typical normal bogan ya know, ginger mullet shaved at the sides, had ta hurt mate. Made me day. Made me feel like I was livin in Geelong again😂. Yeah nah it's fine here at Nundah but guys, looking pretty alright I reckon. Good for a walk round n whatnot 👍 have a good day guys🇭🇲👍

[@benwinter2420]

Funny . . they are mixing that cocaine with ketamine apparently , the neighbor across road told me a Mars mass party of govt 'workers' got sick due to the ketamine in their coke , baking soda & cocaine fried in pan = crack I read in a book . . had a meth head tweeker knock on door couple days back looking supposedly for a cat . . looking for stuff to steal , told him go for it look in back yard . . came back wanting to buy this & that in back yard that will probably go missing in coming weeks

[@benny82ish]

Why is Coles out of tin foil? Oh never mind 😂😂😂

[@Onefrogfour9]

So when is it expected to stop 🫣