Queensland’s week-long rain spell has failed to break the drought
Most of the properties west of Roma are still drought declared.
While the areas east of the Great Dividing Range have received good soaking rain since Thursday, some areas of outback Queensland received less than 30 millimetres in the past seven days.
From Chinchilla eastwards – there were some falls over 100 millimetres.
Charleville – 55 millimetres or less.
“Areas like Charleville are likely to get a storm (on Tuesday) and that will go further east in towards Roma, Miles, Chinchilla towards Wednesday.
Queensland’s drought declarations have not changed since the week-long spring rain.
The Western Downs council area (near Dalby ) is 35.6 per cent drought declared.
The Department of Agriculture says the spring rain would allow the summer sorghum crop to be planted, but was not enough to break the drought west of the Great Divide.
"There were some useful falls were recorded east of a line between St George, Roma and Emerald "The severe storms of last week were relatively patchy and damage occurred on farm from Chinchilla to Bundaberg."
"It appears producers around Kingaroy experienced the most severe impacts," the spokesman said.