🌧️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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On Sunday, a cold front will sweep through South Australia and into Victoria. Here’s the approximate timeline for weather to watch in the southern states over the next few days: • Sunday brings patchy rain and the chance of a thunderstorm to much of SA and western Victoria. Many areas will experience hot temperatures on Sunday before this arrives. • Monday brings more extensive and widespread rain, with moderate falls possible through much of Victoria including Melbourne, and a change to cooler