Residents in part of North Queensland have copped an astonishing drenching overnight, sparking warnings of "life-threatening flash flooding".
Slow moving thunderstorms dumped 362mm on Stony Creek, south-west of Townsville, on Wednesday, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
That's about a third of Townsville's yearly rainfall and more than half of what Melbourne can expect in an average year.
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An incredible 131mm of that fell in just one hour from 8pm-9pm and Mona Mona, north of Cairns, copped 67mm in an hour earlier in the night.
"Severe thunderstorms are likely to produce intense rainfall that may lead to dangerous and life-threatening flash flooding and damaging winds over the next several hours in parts of the North Tropical Coast and Tablelands, Northern Goldfields and Upper Flinders and Herbert and Lower Burdekin districts," the Bureau of Meteorology warned just before midnight.
https://twitter.com/BOM_Qld/status/1486341785538469892Forecasts blamed the "strong, slow moving tropical thunderstorms" on a warm and "very heavy" air mass above the area, inland from Ayr Townsville and Tully.
Along the coast, forecasters were expecting widespread six-hourly rainfall totals of 140-180mm, with as much as 250mm in some areas.
By 2.40am, the risk to life had eased but the bureau was still warning of likely flash flooding through to morning in Forsayth, Woodstock, Lyndhurst Station, Abergowrie, Clare and Greenvale.
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