A tropical cyclone weakened to a tropical low weather system on Saturday as it approached Brisbane, Australia’s third-most populous city, bringing flooding rain to the coastal region.

Tropical Cyclone Alfred was expected to become the first cyclone to cross the east Australian coast near the Queensland state capital since 1974. Residents were told to brace themselves for the ...

Alfred ‒ called a cyclone, not a hurricane in that part of the world ‒ is taking aim Friday on Brisbane, Queensland's state capital. Brisbane was last hit by a cyclone more than half a ...

Australia One person was dead and hundreds of thousands of customers were without power in eastern Australia as the weakened storm formerly known as Tropical Cyclone Alfred made landfall north of ...

It would be the first cyclone to come ashore along the southeastern coast of the state of Queensland since 1974, according to Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology. Hundreds of schools and multiple ...

The Bureau of Meteorology is now predicting Cyclone Alfred to cross the coast Friday night or early Saturday morning, most likely between Noosa and Coolangatta. Damaging and destructive wind gusts ...

Tropical Cyclone Alfred is on track to make landfall on Friday night into Saturday, bringing winds upwards of 120km/h, up to 700mm of rain and flooding. It could be the most devastating storm seen ...

Brisbane City Council has advised residents to "take shelter now" as Tropical Cyclone Alfred bears down on the south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales coasts. The Council's emergency ...

For the first time in more than five decades, a tropical cyclone is on track to hit Australia’s relatively temperate east coast. Slow-moving Cyclone Alfred is barrelling toward Brisbane ...

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