There is a 70 per cent chance temperatures will be higher than average around the Capes this winter, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
BOM senior climatologist Glenn Cook said daytime and minimum temperatures in the region were likely to be above average while the forecast slightly titled towards below average for rainfall.
“That means rainfall could be above average but also equally possible it could be below average over the next three months,” he said.
“There is no real strong indication.”
Autumn was drier than normal, and without the 85 millimetre downpour experienced in the last week of May, rain would have been below average.
“The last week of rain made it deceptive because autumn was now an average season of rainfall, a huge majority of rain fell in the last week of a three month period,” he said.
“There was around 130mm of rain and 80mm of that was in the last five days, prior to that there was around 50mm.”
While temperatures were higher than normal during autumn, Mr Cook said they were close to the average.