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Third cricket Test forecast: muggy with chance of Saturday storms
Anthony Sharwood, Wednesday December 11, 2024 - 11:27 AEDT
The third men's cricket Test between Australia and India starts at the Gabba this Saturday, December 14, and it'll be muggy out there.
The good news is that there won't be the persistent heavy rain that Brisbane has seen midweek this week.
The 75.8mm that Brisbane received in the 24 hours to 9am Wednesday was the city's second-heaviest day of rainfall for 2024, and its wettest day since February.
Unusually for December or indeed for any month, that made downtown Brisbane one of the wettest places not just in southeast Queensland but in the whole of Queensland.
Brisbane Airport received slightly less than the city, but its 61mm was a 14-year high for December.
The two-hour radar loop below shows how the largest area of overnight rainfall was concentrated in the Brisbane area, and how it was relatively slow-moving, allowing for heavy accumulations.
Image: Two-hour radar loop from up until 12am Wednesday (AEST), December 11, 2024, for Queensland.
As the map below shows, a few locations received in excess of 100mm in areas as far afield as the Darling Downs and the Wide Bay and Burnett forecast districts.
But the most concentrated area of orange, red or purple (50mm plus observations) was centred pretty much directly on Brisbane.
Image: Rainfall totals for various southeast Qld locations in the 24 hours to 9am Wednesday, December 11.
The good news for cricket fans is that the overnight rainband is heading out to sea on Wednesday, and steady rain will be well and truly gone by the start of play at the Gabba on Saturday.
But with winds coming from the east for the entirety of the match, the humidity will be oppressive out there – with humidity levels hovering between 60% and 95% throughout the five scheduled days of play.
When it's humid in Brisbane, storms are usually a chance, and indeed Weatherzone meteorologists give a roughly 50% chance of a storm on day one. We'll keep you posted.
Watching that storm hit Bengaluru took me back to this famous Gabba storm in early 1988. I wonder if they ever found that groundskeeper ???????????? pic.twitter.com/0o3Tjlw7VV
— From Ashes to Archive (@ashestoarchive) October 19, 2024
Whether we'll see scenes like the famous 1988 Brisbane storm that disrupted a One Day International remains to be seen.
It's worth noting that the 1988 Gabba storm occurred before the internet, so curator Kevin Mitchell did a good job of using his local weather knowledge to usher players off the field and get the covers more or less in place before the worst of the storm hit. Gotta love his shorts and white knee-length socks too!
Our Brisbane forecast is here.
READ MORE: Brisbane's warmest pair of December nights on record
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40°C on the horizon for Melbourne and Adelaide
13:49 AEDT It's going to be an uncomfortably sweaty end to the week for southern capital cities, with maximum temperatures set to reach 14 to 16°C above the December average.
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