BOM warns of intense rainfall and flash flooding off south-east Queensland over Easter Monday

Intense rainfall of up to 250 millimetres over Fraser Island off south-east Queensland may lead to dangerous flash flooding and wind gusts, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has said.

Rainfall warnings are current for communities east of Noosa Heads, including Maryborough, the Sunshine Coast, Nambour, Hervey Bay and Fraser, Moreton and Stradbroke islands.

BOM senior forecaster Felim Hanniffy said the developing rainfall was linked to a developing low-pressure system on a trough that was expected to drift down near the south-east coast during Monday.

“So far overnight, that system has remained off the coast — it’s remained just east of Fraser Island, which has really spared the coast the really heavy rainfall that we were expecting to…