🌧️The rain radar showers shower activity across parts of North and Far North Queensland today. Showers are heaviest about the North Tropical Coast, with 30-60 mm recorded between Cairns and Ingham in the 6 hours to 9:30am AEST Saturday. Innisfail Aerodrome recorded the most, reaching 84 mm in this period. A low pressure trough lying across the Cape York Peninsula is generating a cloud band through northern Queensland, with moist onshore flow enhancing wet weather along the North Tropical Coast.

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🌡️ Heat will build across much of Australia over the weekend, with widespread warmer temperatures forecast. Many places will be between 2°C and 8°C higher than average between Monday and Wednesday, with even greater warm temperature anomalies in inland areas. Heatwave conditions are forecast across a broad area of northern and central Australia, with Heatwave Warnings likely to be issued. A heatwave is when the maximum and minimum temperatures are unusually hot over 3 days. This is compared to