THE Bureau of Meteorology has released its three-month weather outlook, showing uncertainty in the North for a dry or wet season.
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Climatologist Ian Barnes-Koughan said the odds were split 50/50 as to whether it was going to by a wet season or a dry season.
“The big thing following our weather of late have been El Niño, now that’s very much on the way out, the effect still lingers, but all the indicators are decaying away.”
He said this was the time of year when the North and West of the state tended to get more rain on average.
“Given how dry it has been recently it would be good to see strong indications of wet season and we’re not getting that,” he said.
“Obviously we’ve had quite a dry run reason, so April has been another dry month.
“It will be very interesting to see how things pan out over the next few days, perhaps one of our best chances of a bit of rain for some little time.”
Friday is expected to receive up to 20 millimetres of rain, before easing off in the evening.
Bureau spokesman Malcolm Riley said a cold front in the North was expected late on Friday, with a rain bed and trough ahead of it.
He said most of the North could expect about five to 10 millimetres of rain on Friday, with more in elevated areas.
Mr Riley said Launceston residents should expect rain on the forecast for the next few days leading up to Wednesday.
If everything went according to plan, he said, residents should expect 30 to 40 millimetres of rain up to Wednesday.