It will be a dry july predicts bureau of meteorology

Kylie Triggell | 17th July 2009

IT'S time to pull out those jumpers and scarves because the cold winter weather has well and truly set in.

The Bureau of Meteorology is predicting fine, cool days ahead.

Photo courtesy of QT

IT'S time to pull out those jumpers and scarves because the cold winter weather has well and truly set in.

According to the Bureau of Meteorology, the average daily temperature is set to hover around 20 degrees for the rest of the month.

Bureau of Meteorology weather forecaster, Kevin Hutchins, said the maximum July temperature for south-east Queensland was about 22 degrees, and so far it was only slightly below average.

“It's not very much below,” he said.

“We're looking at temperatures around 18 to 19 degrees. Because of the cloudy conditions we had for a little while (last week), the clouds stopped the days from heating up but also didn't allow the earth to cool down at night,” he said.

The warm days the area experienced two weeks ago were also fairly unusual, and due to warm winds.

“We had fairly strong north-westerly winds blowing from the northern interior, (this made it) fairly warmer,” Mr Hutchins said.

“After that it (the wind) went to the south-west, it brought clear, sunny days and the temperature dropped at night.”

Mr Hutchins said this week the area would start to see more clear weather and drops in the temperature to about 19 degrees.

“July is one of the driest months of the year,” he said.

“It doesn't typically get a great amount of rain, about 25 to 30mL.

“So far we've had three mL so we're continuing the dry trend.”