‘Inland lakes’ as Queensland’s western outback drenched with a year’s worth of rain

Flood waters are expected to take weeks to flow into Lake Eyre and north-east South Australia after widespread wet weather

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An unusually slow-moving weather system has dragged monsoonal rain from tropical north Queensland to the state's south-western outback, already dumping a year's worth of rain in places in a matter of days - with the promise of more to come.

So widespread is the deluge that, by Sunday, the entire sunshine state was expected to be sodden with more than 100mm of rain, Dean Narramore, senior meteorologist at the Bureau of Meteorology said on Tuesday morning.

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