Queensland weather: towns cut off and roads closed as days of heavy rain forecast to continue

Significant rain and flooding have caused road closures and cut off towns in inland Queensland. Photograph: Roger Volz

Heavy rainfall has closed nearly 200 roads and cut off multiple towns in Queensland as already saturated rivers risk more flooding.

The Bureau of Meteorology issued a severe weather warning for heavy rainfall across normally dry inland areas of central west Queensland, including parts of the Northern Goldfields and Upper Flinders, North West, Channel Country, and Maranoa and Warrego districts.