Relief is in sight for a rain-hit region but a looming tropical low is set to ensure more wet weather for northern Australia.
Showers are finally set to ease on Thursday for southeast Queensland after a run of bleak weather that has caused flooding, power outages and ruined a Test cricket match.
But heavy rainfall is expected to strike the state's north thanks to a tropical low, with experts playing down the chance of it developing into the season's first cyclone.
More than 2000 properties were without power late on Wednesday as wet weather continued in the southeast.
Two women were found in the tray of a ute by a swift water rescue team at Euthulla northwest of Brisbane on Tuesday night as emergency services responded to almost 100 callouts across the region.
Severe thunderstorm warnings were still present late on Wednesday.
Heavy rainfall and flash flooding are likely to affect Gympie and South Burnett areas north of Brisbane as well as border town Goondiwindi.
The southeast had already received a drenching with 88mm dumped on Kobble Creek in an hour and 86mm in 30 minutes at Mount Samson Road, both north of Brisbane.
Central and eastern Queensland copped the brunt of the heavy rain on Tuesday, with Mapleton, north of the Sunshine Coast, hit with 102mm while nearby Cooloolabin Dam received 103mm.
Up north, Townsville had about 65mm while showers continued in Brisbane, ensuring Australia's Gabba Test against India fizzled out to a draw.
But the Bureau of Meteorology said the weather was set to ease in the southeast from Wednesday night with a southeasterly surge pushing up from NSW.
"That means showers will start clearing from the southeastern areas while continuing in parts further to the north," the bureau's Miriam Bradbury said.
Wet weather is set to persist across northern and central parts of the Queensland coast on Thursday with the low looming.
"We see a tropical low pressure starting to develop over the Cape York Peninsula," Ms Bradbury said.
"This system at this stage has only a low chance of becoming a tropical cyclone.
"But nonetheless it will drag in some stronger winds and increase moisture around it ... directing it along the coast and enhancing rainfall totals in those areas."
Heavy showers are set to impact the north from Thursday night.
"It really will depend on how quickly this system moves away though as to when we'll see them clearing."
Flood warnings remain for more than a dozen rivers and creeks in southeast, west and central Queensland.
More than 20 dams across the southeast are spilling with the region's biggest, Wivenhoe, releasing water after reaching 90 per cent capacity.
The last time the dam released water was during 2022 floods which caused destruction across Queensland's southeast and northern NSW, resulting in 24 deaths.
