“It is especially humid at the moment.”
The average 3pm relative humidity for November is 55 per cent. On Sunday, the relative humidity in Brisbane was 70 per cent.
The conditions have been on par with those experienced in the wet tropics. On Monday morning, the dew point – a more accurate measure of the humidity – in Brisbane was 22 degrees, the same as it was at Darwin Airport.
A lightning strike over Brisbane during thunderstorms on November 10.Credit: Michael
Wednesday should be a turning point, Claassen said, with slightly cooler temperatures and milder conditions forecast for the weekend.
“From Wednesday, we’re still likely to see afternoon showers and storms, but the risk isn’t as great,” he said.
“Finally, towards the end of the week, we’ll start to see those showers and storms ease.”
Brisbane’s southern suburbs and Logan and Ipswich were hardest hit by Sunday night’s storms.
“Lightning strikes will hit the network and they’ll cause an outage, but there’s not usually a lot of physical damage and we can remotely switch them back on a lot of the time,” Energex spokesman Danny Donald said.
He said Energex had recorded more than double the number of lightning strikes over Brisbane so far this storm season, compared with the same period last year.
“We have had more than 2 million lightning strikes so far this storm season. At the same time last year, we had recorded 780,000,” he said.
“Our crews are in for an exciting storm season by the way it’s started off.”
The lightning interrupted a concert and forced the cancellation of another on Sunday night. Canadian pop singer Tate McRae’s gig at Riverstage was paused as the audience took shelter from the storm at the nearby QUT campus, while British pop stars Take That were forced to cancel their gig at Sirromet Winery in Mount Cotton.
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