Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
Queensland
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Heatwave Warning
Issued at 02:24 PM EST on Friday 31 October 2025
Valid for Friday 31 October 2025 to Monday 03 November 2025
Warning for the following areas:
Peninsula, Gulf Country, North Tropical Coast and Tablelands and Herbert and Lower Burdekin
Safety Advice:
Severe heatwaves can be dangerous for many people, especially older people, babies, children, pregnant and breastfeeding women, people with medical conditions and people who are unwell.
Seek a place to keep cool, such as your home, a library, community centre or shopping centre.
Close your windows and draw blinds, curtains or awnings early in the day to keep the heat out of your home.
If available, use fans or air-conditioners to keep cool.
Maximum temperatures in the low thirties to low forties, deceasing to high twenties to mid thirties over the North Tropical coasts and Tablelands district and also the Herbert and Lower Burdekin district. Overnight minimum temperatures in the high teens to mid twenties.
Severe heatwave conditions are expected to continue throughout Cape York Peninsula over the coming days and expand to other parts of northern Queensland over the weekend before beginning to ease next week. Locations likely to be impacted include Kowanyama, Townsville and Weipa.
The next heatwave warning will be issued by 3:00pm EST on Saturday 01 November 2025
Local Weather
Horn Island (10.5938°S, 142.2853°E, 10m AMSL) set as my default location ›
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Current Conditions
Currently at Horn Island 27.9°- Dew point
- 23.7°
- Relative humidity
- 78%
- feels like
- 30.3°
- Wind
- SE 17km/h
- Rainfall since 9am
- 0.0mm
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Radar
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7 day forecast
Today: Mostly sunny. Slight chance of a shower N of Coen, near zero chance elsewhere. Winds E/NE 15 to 20 km/h becoming light before dawn then becoming E 20 to 30 km/h in the morning. Overnight temperatures falling to the low to mid 20s with daytime temperatures reaching the mid to high 30s.
Forecast for Horn Island (10.5938°S, 142.2853°E, 10m AMSL) Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Summary 
Minimum 27° 27° 27° 27° 27° 27° 27° Maximum 33° 33° 32° 32° 32° 33° 32° Chance of rain 30% 30% 30% 20% 80% 60% 40% Likely amount < 1mm < 1mm 1-5mm < 1mm < 1mm < 1mm < 1mm UV index Extreme Extreme Extreme Extreme Extreme Extreme Extreme Fire Danger Rating Moderate Moderate Moderate Moderate - - - Frost risk Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil Nil 9am 3pm 9am 3pm 9am 3pm 9am 3pm 9am 3pm 9am 3pm 9am 3pm Wind speed 24
(km/h)32
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(km/h)Wind direction ESE ESE ESE ESE ESE E ESE ESE ESE ESE ESE ESE ESE ESE Relative humidity 64% 57% 62% 58% 63% 60% 61% 59% 62% 57% 58% 55% 59% 57% Dew point 23°C 22°C 23°C 22°C 22°C 22°C 22°C 22°C 22°C 21°C 21°C 22°C 21°C 21°C -
Sunrise and sunset times
Sunrise / Sunset for Horn Island (10.5938°S, 142.2853°E, 10m AMSL) First light Sunrise Sunset Last light Moon rise Moon set Moon phase Full moon Last quarter New moon First quarter 5:38am EST 6:00am EST 6:29pm EST 6:51pm EST 2:27pm EST 2:18am EST 
Waxing gibbous
Full moon Nov 06 Last quarter Nov 12 New moon Nov 20 First quarter Nov 28 -
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