Strong winds are forecasted to last several days, he said. The next couple of days will be bit windier which will bring showers. He said wind gusts would stay around 40km/h. Several locations across the Coast recorded three to 10mm of rain on Thursday. Bellthorpe, Maroochydore recorded 13mm. Mr Claassen said the showers wouldn t be too disruptive. Over the next couple of days if you are on the coastline rainfall is most likely in the morning and if you are inland rain can be expected more in the afternoon, he said. He said no thunderstorms were expected to hit the Coast on Thursday.
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UPDATE 7.50AM: State Emergency Service volunteers have been called to more than 60 jobs overnight as residents battered by a ferocious storms count the cost of damage to their homes and neighbourhoods. Sunshine Coast area controller Brendan Casement said the worst hit areas appeared to be Little Mountain, Currimundi, Aroona, Moffat Beach and Battery Hill. Sharna Sorrell posted a photo of storm damage to her Coast home. He said trees had fallen through rooves in parts of Little Mountain and Aroona while minor flash flooding had caused water to go into homes at Moffat Beach. He said his crews had received 64 call-outs to help with storm damage up until 7.30am Sunday.