It won’t be great beach conditions for the New Year long weekend on the Sunshine Coast but at least it won’t be bucketing.
The weather bureau is predicting coastal showers for Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with less rain as each day passes.
New Year’s Eve will be have a 90 per cent chance of scattered showers and cloudy skies, with between 5mm and 15mm falling in patchy locations across the Coast, meteorologist Rosa Hoff said.
“It will ease back on Friday and ease further over the weekend with less than 10mm falling on Friday and less than 5mm on Saturday and Sunday,” she said.
“They will be fairly patchy showers with a 70 per cent chance of rain on Friday and easing back to a 40 per cent chance on the weekend.”
Temperatures will sit around 27 and 28 degrees across the weekend break.
Ms Hoff described beach conditions as “choppy”, with east to south-easterly winds picking up on New Year’s Day on Friday to as high as 25 knots (just below the threshold for a strong wind warning).
The winds will ease on Saturday to between 15 and 20 knots, she said.
