Fingers are crossed that showers that lashed Mount Isa on Tuesday continue over the coming days.
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According to the Bureau of Meteorology, the gauge at Mount Isa Airport registered only 1.6mm, only the second day of rain in 18 days this month.
The weather forecast for Thursday in the Mount Isa forecast district is for zero chance of rain but that rises to 30% Friday and higher still to 50% on Saturday and 60% in the days following.
The heat continued with temperatures of 43 degrees in Mount Isa on Wednesday with 45 in Boulia. Local temperatures were higher still with one thermometer in McKinlay registering 50 degrees last Tuesday.
Heat records were broken across Queensland as the state has sweltered through several days of average temperatures above 40 degrees.
Hughenden hit 42.8 degrees on Wednesday, the hottest day on record since 1969.
Bureau forecaster Sean Fitzgerald said much of Queensland recorded temperatures above 35 degrees during the week.
“In particular, out west is where it is very very hot - temperatures out there are at or exceeding 40 in some places, so quite a bit above average,” Mr Fitzgerald said.
“Lots of places are five degrees above average and some places are even 10 degrees above average, so plenty of warm temperatures about the state.