The clean-up has begun in parts of southern Queensland after days of torrential rain, as remnants of ex-Tropical Cyclone Kirrily continue to impact parts of the state.
Senior meteorologist Angus Hines said the wet weather moved north through the Wide Bay and Capricornia overnight, bringing rainfall totals between 50mm and 120mm.
"So notably less rainfall than 24 hours previous but we are still expecting to see a little bit more wet weather today working its way up through the central and northern coasts of Queensland."
He said flood warnings were still in place for parts of central Queensland and the coastal catchments between Gladstone and Caboolture.
Loading..."Still got a lot of flooding going on through the waterways there, including two major flood warnings for the Condamine and Moonie Rivers," he said.
"We could see these rivers with elevated levels for the next several days as it will take a while for those flood waters to drain out, even long past when the overhead rainfall conditions have cleared up."
Premier Steven Miles said disaster assessments has been carried out on 399 properties in Moreton Bay on Tuesday.
"Today the Primer Minister and I are announcing that we've activated hardship payments for those in Bray Park," he said.
"But we expect further suburbs to be added throughout the day."
He confirmed the Caboolture hospital, which was affected by floodwaters, has now reopened.
Seven families evacuated
Queensland Fire and Emergency Services (QFES) evacuated 27 people, including 14 children, from Warra on the Western Downs on Tuesday night after an emergency alert was issued for Myall Creek.
Western Downs Mayor Paul McVeigh said the evacuees spent the night sheltering in Dalby.
"[The water] never got above floorboards in homes in Warra but it's certainly in the main street," he said.
"The service station there had water through it so there's been a major impact in that community."
Water levels are now receding across the Western Downs region, including at Dalby and Jandowae, allowing the focus to turn to the clean-up effort.
A number of roads have been cut due to flooding, and road users are advised to check online before embarking on travel.
Another low forming
Mr Hines said ex-tropical cyclone Kirrily was following "quite an interesting path".
"Now, what we sometimes see is these systems move out over gulf waters and start to intensify. But that does not look like the case with ex-Tropical Cyclone Kirrily," he said.
"What looks like is going to happen is that over the next day or so, it will continue to move northwards, get towards the Gulf coast, probably late in the day on Thursday, and do a complete 180 and start to move back to the south."
He also said there was "a hint we could see some tropical development again" in the Coral Sea, in the next seven days.
The BOM said a low is forming off southern Queensland, and is expect to move north-east away from the coast.
But a possible scenario has the system moving west towards the Queensland coast from mid to late next week.
'Very unsettled meteorological condition'
Senior engineer at Water Technology Brisbane, Andrew Thompson, said the weather "situation is unfolding constantly".
"We're not seeing that prolonged period that we did in 2022 where we had days upon days of hundreds and hundreds of millimetres … [but] it could change in the next 12 hours, 24 hours," he said.
Mr Thompson said the event was "very typical for this time of year in south-east Queensland" but all warnings by the BOM and local council alerts should be heeded.
He said the Brisbane River wasn't expected to have any significant inflows, but smaller urban catchments could be hit which would result in flooding in low-lying areas.
On Monday, an Seqwater spokesperson said releases from Wivenhoe Dam and North Pine Dam were not likely – although that depends on the volume of rainfall received.
The water authority's Flood Operations Centre is monitoring the situation.