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Cyclone Narelle to reach category 5 before Queensland landfall

Tropical Cyclone Narelle is forecast to become a powerful category 5 system – the highest tier on the Australian cyclone scale – before making landfall over northern Queensland later this week.

Tropical Cyclone Narelle reaches category 5 as army put on standby in Far North Queensland

Tropical Cyclone Narelle has now been upgraded to category 5 as it guns towards Far North Queensland. Residents are now in ...

Tropical Cyclone Alfred: Threat looms over southeast Queensland and northern NSW as schools shut, flights cancelled

Tropical Cyclone Alfred remains on course to lash southeast Queensland between Brisbane and the Gold Coast, with landfall ...
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Cyclone Alfred is expected to hit southeast Queensland – the first in 50 years to strike so far south

If you’re in southeast Queensland, brace yourself. Category 2 cyclones produce winds at levels considered damaging at best, destructive at worst – typically gusting as high as 164 kilometres per hour.