THE Redlands is in for some thumping weather this weekend, with torrential rain, wind gusts to 100km/hr and flooding in low lying areas.
The heaviest falls - potentially to 200mm in some places - will be on Saturday, continuing into early Sunday but easing later.
It has prompted the Redland City Council to cancel Saturday’s Indigi Day Out.
The Folk Redlands Festival of Music will go ahead indoors and run at a smaller capacity from 10am to 4pm.
Rough coastal weather conditions will stretch from the Great Dividing Range south of Bundaberg to NSW.
Weather Bureau forecaster Gordon Banks said Moreton Bay would be no place for boaties, with severe conditions expected.
The coastal strip would be hit by a double whammy heavy weather event as an upper trough coming across the state from the west combined with an east coast surface trough.
Mr Banks warned boaties to stay out of the water, with Moreton Bay to see wind gusts to 100km/hr and coastal erosion expected.
Galeforce winds would coincide with a king tide, potentially piling water against the shoreline which, combined with heavy rain, would produce localised flooding in low lying areas.
"This could see a bit of water on roads with a tide to equal the highest of the year,'' Mr Banks said.
The weather event has the potential to produce the first substantial rain in the Redlands in at least two years.
Lighter falls are forecast for the Maranoa and Warrego Friday on the back of record breaking warm and dry autumn conditions across much of the state.
Queensland autumn extremes
Good rain should go inland as far as the prime vegetable growing places in the Lockyer and Fassifern valleys and grazing, dairying and crop growing areas through Beaduesert and south to border regions.
Mr Banks said showers and scattered heavier falls would boost grazing areas in the southwest and graingrowing areas further east which had been parched by above average autumn temperatures.
"Places like Thargomindah, Charleville, St George, Cunnamulla and Windorah should see useful falls on Friday,'' he said.
"It's been extremely dry in some of these cattle grazing areas. There should be light rain north of Longeach but it is unlikely to be significant.''
Meantime, bureau data shows that Queensland has recorded its warmest autumn on record, with below average rainfall across the southeast but above average in the west and north.
The central west, southern interior and southeast copped the worst of the warm temperatures, which helped dry out backyards.
The southeast broke records for lowest autumn rainfall, with Manly 0mm, Logan City 107.3mm and Miva 59.7mm.
Rocky Point Sugar mill on the northern Gold Coast had its lowest autumn rainfall in 20 years, with 145.7mm.
A long list of places across the state had record highest autumn mean daily temperatures.
These included Brisbane 28.6C, Cunnamulla 30.5C, Bollon 31C, Cairns 30.5C, Charleville 31.2C, Taroom 31.8C, Lockhart River 30.7C, Longreach 33.8C, Mount Isa 33.8C, Injune 29.9C, Applethorpe 23.2C, Bundaberg 29.1C, Dalby 29.2C, Logan 28.1C and the Sunshine Coast 27.8C.
