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The chance of Tropical Cyclone Oma making landfall on the southern Queensland coast is decreasing, the Bureau of Meteorology says.
The category-two system is currently 960 kilometres north-east of Brisbane and is still moving towards the city.
But BOM forecaster Michael Knepp said there was still a lot of uncertainty about Oma’s movements.
“Probably the most likely scenario at this stage is it’ll stay offshore during the weekend and then possibly start moving parallel to the coast to the north-east,” he said.
He said while south-east Queensland may not get the direct impact of the system, winds could start picking up.
“We are still going to see the impacts of the system, especially in regards to the winds,” he said.
“We’re going to see gale-force winds developing tomorrow, and not only gale-force winds but conditions along the beach are going to be quite dangerous.”
A severe weather warning is in place for abnormally high tides and dangerous surf from the town of 1770 to Coolangatta.
BOM said the dangerous surf conditions would likely affect Fraser Island and the coast north of Bargara from this afternoon and evening and the remaining south-east coast overnight into Friday.
High tides could exceed the highest tide of the year by a metre on Thursday morning on the Gold Coast, Maroochydore, Moreton Island, Noosa Heads, Caloundra and Rainbow Beach.
Surf Life Saving Queensland Regional operations manager Craig Holden said swimmers needed to be aware of debris that may wash up during high tides.
“With the king tides you do get a lot of debris washing up, things coming out of storm water drains things coming out of rivers, creeks as well as what gets washed off sand dunes as well. That certainly presents a danger for swimmers.”
On the Gold and Sunshine coasts shark nets have been removed and boaties are being urged to seek safe harbour.
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