'Traumatising' weather returning for flood-ravaged regions: ' A very wet week ahead'

Flood-ravaged communities are bracing for another deluge with severe thunderstorms developing in northern NSW and southeast Queensland.

Severe thunderstorm warnings were issued on Monday with heavy rainfall to continue into Tuesday when at least 100mm is forecast for Lismore, just weeks after the town was smashed by its worst ever floods.

"We're not going to need nearly as much rainfall as these places have had in the past couple of weeks to cause significant renewed flooding," a spokesperson from Weatherzone told Yahoo News Australia.

"50 to 150mm [is predicted] from the Sunshine Coast to the Central Coast in NSW," the spokesperson said.

"There will be isolated heavier falls, potentially as much as 300mm [and that] is in the areas that have had the worst flooding in the past few weeks."

Potential for landslides and flash flooding

The possibly 200 to 300mm rainfall is predicted between Brisbane and Coffs Harbour according to Weatherzone, although experts say the intense rainfall should only last for one or two days with water levels expected to drop at the end of the week.

The Bureau of Meteorology has warned of possible intense rainfall that could bring "dangerous and life-threatening flash flooding" in parts of Gold Coast, Brisbane, Maroochydore, Caboolture, Coolangatta and Ipswich.

"Heavy rainfall increases the potential for landslides and debris across roads," the BoM said on Monday.

Scott McLennan from the NSW SES said the flash-flooding warnings are "raw and traumatising" for the communities recently hit by flooding, many of whom are still rebuilding from the floods triggered by Queensland's wettest February in130 years.

"We need you to heed the warning, get prepared, don't drive through floodwater … be wary that landslips are likely, be wary that the culverts may be flooded," he told ABC News.

"If we tell you to evacuate, evacuate. Everything is wet and it is going to be a very wet week ahead."

Mr McLennan also reminded people not to drive through floodwaters.

The BoM reported Northern NSW has seen high rainfall from showers and thunderstorms. Most of the coast north of Newcastle recorded around 100mm or more in the past week, Wauchope (near Port Macquarie) received around 180mm on Friday and Alstonville (near Lismore) received around 200mm on Saturday.

Man and dogs die in flash flooding

A man and a number of dogs have died in southern Queensland after a ute was washed away by floodwaters on Monday morning.

Queensland police say the man and the animals had been in the vehicle with a woman when it was washed away at Kingsthorpe, northwest of Toowoomba, about 5am on Monday.

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Queensland Fire and Emergency Service swift water rescue crews managed to rescue the woman, but the man and the dogs didn't survive.

"A man was located deceased in the ute. A number of dogs also died," police said in a statement on Monday morning.

"Investigations are ongoing and police will prepare a report for the Coroner."

with AAP

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