Storm clean-up efforts are underway in Queensland as a heatwave persists over the north, but conditions should ease this weekend.

A trough moving east over central and southeast Queensland will reach the southeast coast this evening and then push northward into central and northeastern Queensland on Friday and over the weekend.

A trough and embedded low lie well off the Capricornia and southern Queensland coast and will slowly push further offshore ... much of the south of the state later this week, pushing north during the ...