STORMS are hitting Brisbane, bringing hail and damaging winds. Places in the firing line are Brisbane, Logan, Ipswich, Somerset and the Redlands. The Weather Bureau warns that storms have built up in the Lake Manchester area, west of Brisbane. Send us your wet weather pics - MMS 0428 258 117 They are forecast to affect Wacol and Archerfield by 2.05 pm and Slacks Creek, Tingalpa Reservoir and Camp Hill by 2.35pm. Storms have stopped play at the Gabba about 2pm. Residents in the Wide Bay and Burnett, southeast coast and parts of the Central Highlands and Coalfields, Capricornia, Maranoa and Warrego and Darling Downs and Granite Belt also should prepare. Places likely to see some activity include Maroochydore, Gympie, Kingaroy, Noosa and Biloela. Earlier, The Courier-Mail reported sunny conditions are forecast for the first cricket Test at the Gabba on Monday while in the north graziers are bracing for storms and showers as the first cyclone of the season pushes moisture inland over the drought-hit Gulf of Carpentaria. It follows a weekend of storms that started in the Maranoa and Warrego yesterday before sweeping southeast, roughing up the Inglewood, Warwick, Lockyer Valley, Laidley, Rosewood and Ipswich districts. Weather Bureau forecaster Michael Knepp said there would be little chance of rain saving England at the Gabba. "Of course we still might get a storm or showers today," he said. "But after that, the whole week should be okay," he said. The next round of activity won't be until late Friday or Saturday when a trough comes through. There's very little chance of any interruptions with the cricket tomorrow. Mr Knepp said Cyclone Alessia was moving east towards Queensland at 20km/hr and - despite being a long way away - its moisture-laden winds were expected to bring showers and storms to the Gulf and northern parts. The cyclone was 100km off the coast at 9am and flood warnings had been issued for the NT. The monsoon trough is expected to drift south through the week, allowing monsoon rain areas to extend from the Gulf Country to Queensland's east north coast and Tablelands. It will see scattered showers and thunderstorms from the northern interior across to the central coast. Rollingstone just north of Townsville had 120mm overnight, the highest falls recorded in the state in the 24 hours to 9am. "There have been falls of 50mm to 60mm around Normanton, Kowanyama had 28mm, Miranda Downs 30mm but it's likely there were heavier falls around that that," he said. We don't have a lot of rain gauges out there in the Gulf so we just don't know. How much we get up there is highly dependent on the movement of the tropical cyclone. If it moves towards the NT-Queensland border as a low, we could get quite a lot of rainfall. Some cumulative rainfall totals over the past week include Bowen 295.3mm, Georgetown 74mm, Richmond 44.8mm and Charters Towers 53.6mm. Overnight in the southeast, Junction View, southeast of Toowoomba, had 69mm, Nanango 62mm, nearby Brooklands 72mm, Amberley 52mm, Churchill 55mm, Coolangatta 26mm, Currumbin Creek 42mm, North Stradbroke Island 37mm, O'Reilly's 36mm, Tallebudgera Creek Dam 41mm. Goondiwindi had 31mm while in the north Mareeba had 79mm, Chillagoe 50mm, Ingham 58mm and Coen on Cape York 67mm. Falls around Brisbane were mostly in the teens. By tomorrow, the monsoon trough should extend from the northwest, across the tropical interior and south to the Fraser Island area with showers and thunderstorms contracting to its north. A drier air mass should dominate to the south. Last night, forecasters said the line of storms that barrelled through the southeast corner had started to weaken by 10.30pm and were likely to reach the Sunshine Coast by 1am. additional reporting by Kate McKenna