Cyclone Threat Hangs Over Rain-Soaked North Queensland

Published on January 22, 2024

Queenslanders are bracing for a potential category 3 cyclone forecast to cross the coast just weeks after wild weather lashed the region. The Bureau of Meteorology says a tropical low in the Coral Sea is expected to develop into a cyclone, which will be named Kirrily, late on Monday. “We’re getting to a severe category 3 cyclone as we move through the Wednesday time-frame,” senior bureau meteorologist Dean Narramore said on Sunday. Monsoonal low bringing heavy rain and thunderstorms to parts of the NT, Qld and the Kimberley today with the focus shifting into the Kimberley, monday. A Severe Weather Warning is current for heavy to locally intense rainfall....

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