Gladstone recorded 82 millimetres, while the Brisbane bayside suburb of Hemmant received 64.

Some tinder-dry inland regions also received decent falls, with 62 millimetres recorded near Theodore, inland of Bundaberg.

However the Bureau of Meteorology's Dean Narramore said the rain was far from drought-breaking.

"In the past six months, we've had very little rain, so we've got to catch up on that," he said on Saturday.

"We need hundreds and hundreds of millimetres over many months."