A flood-weary Queensland community is about to be battered again by another “day after day” deluge expected to bring hundreds of millimetres of rain.

After just two weeks of sunshine, the Hinchinbrook Shire in northern Queensland is again bracing for heavy rain.

A severe weather warning has been issued from Cardwell to Ayr for heavy rainfall that may lead to flash flooding from Tuesday night.

“It’s likely that some locations, particularly about the North Tropical Coast, will receive triple-digit rainfall totals day after day,” the Bureau of Meteorology’s Miriam Bradbury said.

There are already multiple flood warnings on the Herbert and Bohle Rivers after days of rain.

Nearby areas were saturated, with 248 millimetres falling in 24 hours at Paradise Lagoon, including 75 millimetres within an hour on Tuesday morning.

Paluma had 235 millimetres, with 226 millimetres near Innisfail and 127 millimetres at flood-weary Ingham, one of the town’s hit hardest by flooding in February.

Local Mayor Ramon Jayo saw the “trauma” his community endured during last month’s flood disaster, which isolated Ingham and claimed two lives.

“We have rivers in the lower Herbert starting to respond,” Jayo said on Tuesday.

“We’re not concerned at this stage there will be any flooding to the extent that houses or properties will be inundated.”

However, Jayo was concerned about a possible loss of access to homes in nearby Halifax via the Anabranch Bridge.

He said the latest wet weather would halt efforts to fix road damage from February – when days of torrential rain also left Ingham without power for days.

Jayo said northern communities knew what to expect during the wet season but February’s rain had many on edge.

“They’re still pretty upset. One of the biggest issues is we went through it without any power so it made the flood event much harder,” he said.

“There’s still a lot of trauma.”

Forecaster Weatherzone predicted “some huge multiday totals” by the end of this week – against likely between Cairns and Townsville.

“This is the strip of coastline and hinterland that saw incredibly heavy multiday rainfall accumulations of well over a metre in late January and early February, which in some cases were record-breaking. Major riverine flooding occurred,” Weatherzone said on Tuesday.

Insurers have already received more than 7600 claims, estimated to be worth more than $164 million, across Townsville, Ingham, Innisfail, Mission Beach and Cardwell.

Meanwhile, in Queensland’s south-east, recovery efforts continue after ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred as the region looks to lure back tourists.

The weekend of wild weather cost Brisbane $70 million in immediate impacts with flights cancelled, hotel bookings falling by 40 per cent, and restaurant closures, Economic Development Association’s Anthony Ryan said.

But there are promises the city is back open for business.

“People from across Australia would have been seeing the impacts of Tropical Cyclone Alfred and maybe making the assumption that Brisbane is closed,” Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner said.

“We’re saying we are open for visitors and we have the best offering you can ever imagine.”

The Queensland government had committed $1 million to boost a tourism campaign to encourage domestic and international travellers to Brisbane and across the state.

-with AAP