Australia news live updates: more NSW flood warnings in place as Lismore cleanup continues; extreme heatwaves and severe storms forecast for Queensland | Australia news

And over in Queensland, here is the latest from the bureau.

Severe thunderstorms have again developed across the southeast.

The Bureau of Meteorology warns that, at 2.45pm, severe thunderstorms were detected on the weather radar near Boonah and the area northwest of Jimna.

These thunderstorms are moving towards the east. They are forecast to affect the area between Boonah and Beaudesert, Borumba Dam and Imbil by 3.15pm and Beaudesert, Mapleton and Yandina by 3.45pm.

Damaging winds, large hailstones and heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding are likely.

Many thanks to Graham Readfearn for guiding us through today’s news. I’ll be with you for the rest of the evening – hopefully remaining dry.

That’s me for today. Passing the busy blog baton to my colleague Caitlin Cassidy who’ll take you through the rest of the day as the rain starts falling again.

The ABC is reporting the body of cricket great Shane Warne, who died on Friday aged 52 from a suspected heart attack, is now being transferred from the island of Koh Samui to the mainland.

The ABC says Warne’s friends, Australian ambassador Allan McKinnon and Dfat officials are on a car ferry accompanying an ambulance that’s carrying Warne’s body.

Telstra has reported there are still more than 50 mobile phone transmitters that are either partially or completely offline due to damage from floods and storms in south-east Queensland and New South Wales.

But the company says the numbers are coming down from a peak of 250 base stations affected at the peak of the floods. A Telstra statement says:

Many areas are however still inaccessible due to flood waters and road infrastructure damage or are without power and we need both to assess whether there has been any damage to our network. Unfortunately, we have found significant damage to some of our network, which will take time to fix.

For mobile base stations, there are 26 still affected in NSW and 27 in Queensland.

We are working with power companies and local authorities to access the affected areas so we can get to work to bring services back online. We are also working with nbn co to ensure our nbn customers’ services are restored as soon as possible.

Telstra also provided a list of communities that it said “may be isolated”: The Channon, Mullumbimby, Koonorigan, Ocean Shores, Pillar Valley, Jiggi, Stokers Siding, Uki, Modanville, Ulmarra, Tucabia, Wooli, Duranbah, Kingscliff, Whian Whian, Main Arm, Woodburn and Tyalgum. They’re all in NSW.

For disaster assistance, Telstra asks customers impacted and displaced due to the floods to visit Telstra Exchange.

It has started raining again in south-east Queensland, with thunder rumbling around Brisbane, according to me (I’m in a suburb in the north of Brisbane).

The BoM has also issued its report for heavy rain over the coming days in NSW and you can see clearly the area of low pressure off the east coast that’s bringing the rain.

Wherever you are on the east coast, keep an eye out for all the thunderstorm and flood warnings from the BoM website.

Here is that summary of the latest coronavirus numbers from around Australia today, including 13 deaths.

ACT

• Deaths: 0
• Cases: 562
• In hospital: (in ICU) 36 (2)

NSW

• Deaths: 5
• Cases: 8,782
• In hospital: (in ICU) 1,009 (43)

Northern Territory

• Deaths: 0
• Cases: 231
• In hospital: (in ICU) 54 (2)

Queensland

• Deaths: 2
• Cases: 2,934
• In hospital: (in ICU) 265 (22)

South Australia

• Deaths: 2
• Cases: 1,688
• In hospital: (in ICU) 103 (12)

Tasmania

• Deaths: 0
• Cases: 757
• In hospital: (in ICU) 18 (5)

Victoria

• Deaths: 4
• Cases: 5,046
• In hospital: (in ICU) 219 (13)

Western Australia

• Deaths: 0
• Cases: 2,270
• In hospital: (in ICU) 0

South Australia is the last authority to report their Covid case numbers.

I’ll have a summary of all these very soon, but the state has reported 1,688 new cases and two further deaths. There are 12 people in intensive care.