9pm Friday night: Cairns is under tropical wind convergence with heavy rain set in. Watch for flash flooding as totals start to exceed 100mm. Radar via RadarScope | Higgins Storm Chasing

Good evening weather watchers. Hopefully you were lucky enough to get some rain this afternoon as a large number of storms developed throughout the area, with storms expected to continue overnight and weaken in the early part of tomorrow morning. I have included the 6hr Cairns radar so you can see how & where the storms developed & their current direction. The weather chart has a broad area of low pressure will remain over the interior of the state for the next few days, with a slow moving surfa