After a few cold evenings, overnight minimums in Mount Isa are set to climb a little in the coming days.
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Temperatures only got to 21.2 degrees on Sunday after dipping as low as 4.8 degrees on Thursday and were hovering around six degree mark early on Monday morning.
Sunny weather is predicted through the forecast period with Monday seeing a top of 24 and a cool overnight minimum of seven degrees.
On Tuesday top temps will rise to 26 and it will fall to eight at night.
By Wednesday the mercury will rise to 27 and will only fall to 11 degrees that night. Overnight minimums will hover around the 10-11 mark to Saturday, down to nine Sunday.
Daytime maximums will be around the 26-27 mark for the rest of the forecast period.
The BoM said the cold weather was caused by a "gigantly broad" high pressure system over South Australia.
"It's so elongated it's directing this south west wind into all of Queensland for the last several days," the BoM said.
Lake Moondarra is 47.3pc full while Lake Julius is at 91.6pc
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