A climate scientist has said that one cool spring or a hot spell 100 years are not proof climate change is not happening.

Producers in North Queensland are looking to install their own weather stations in a bid to get a greater understanding of conditions on their properties.

Climate change is more than just an ethical issue - how it is managed by business has scope to have serious financial risks and rewards.

It has been somewhat of a rarity over the past three years but the forecast rain over the past week has more than lived up to its potential.

Rain is coming for much of eastern and northern Australia, but not until early 2020 the latest BoM modeling suggests.

It will be patchy and not everyone will get as much as they want but meteorologists are predicting the most widespread falls in six months.

Up to 100mm of rain is forecast for parts of western Queensland during the next four days.

The falls were only slight but still welcomed when the skies finally opened in parts of Central Queensland late last week

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