MONSOONAL conditions may return to North Queensland in the next 10 days, but there is a very low chance of any cyclone activity during the next week.
The Bureau of Meteorology's weekly tropical climate note, released on Tuesday said climate conditions favoured a return of monsoonal conditions over northern Australia.
"A monsoon trough is likely to form north of Australia, increasing the chances of widespread rainfall and tropical cyclone formation," the statement noted.
However, BoM meteorologist James Thompson said while there would be scattered showers and storms in central and North Queensland this week, heavy deluges were unlikely.
"Currently we have a reasonably moist air mass across much of Queensland, particularly over north, central and eastern Queensland, and with that comes a chance of showers and storms for the next few days," Mr Thompson said.
"Looking longer term there are early indications that the monsoon could return to the area in one to two weeks, but with that time frame it is much too early to give any specific details about the return to those conditions."
Mr Thompson said there was a very low chance of a cyclone developing in the Coral and Arafura seas over the next seven days.
He said ex-tropical Cyclone Oma had all but fizzled out and was no longer a concern for Queensland.
"Ex-tropical Cyclone Oma is no more, there is no residual circulating or anything and it has been quite a few days since we could track Oma, it has been close to a week since TC Oma existed."
Mr Thompson said inland areas around Winton and Longreach and west to Cloncurry and Mount Isa had received some showers and storms which would continue for the next few days, however rain in the flood impacted towns along the Flinders Highway was unlikely.
