The hottest spots in Queensland this week, as ‘real heat’ still to come

Meteorologist Ricus Lombard said only half of greater Brisbane enjoyed a break from the sweltering heat on Thursday, as a wind change brought overcast conditions.

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“We’re still sitting under a hot air mass in south-east Queensland, but an east-south-easterly influence today [Thursday] only got up to half of Brisbane,” he said.

“So southern Brisbane was feeling about 2 degrees below the December average today [Thursday], but areas further north were feeling temperatures above average.

“We have not seen a change in that hot air mass, the overcast set up was the reason we got some reprieve for just one day.

“All that hot air will be coming back tomorrow [Friday] with north-north-easterly winds returning.”

Western Queensland was expecting…