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Residents of Gold Coast were warned to stay inside after 6 p.m. local time (8 a.m., GMT) while floods and destructive winds of the tropical cyclone Alfred are starting to settle.

“It looks like the most important event in our city in terms of destructive winds and heavy rains that we have seen since 1954,” warned the interim mayor Donna Gates during a press conference this afternoon.

With an expected 800 mm of rain, she said the conditions will be “horrible” and warned the residents to prepare for power outages while the cyclone intensifies.

“Very strong precipitation will continue until late Friday and in the first half of Saturday,” she said.

The slowdown in cyclone Alfred could be the worst case for the Southeast Queensland, warn the experts.

The storm is currently traveling at a speed of 16 km / h, but the experts fear slowing down at 11 km / h, which is much slower than a typical system.

A slow movement could mean that Alfred will have more time to intensify, feeding on the warm waters of the ocean and the shear of the vertical wind, making it stronger before reaching the coast.

Meteorologist Thomas Hinterdorfer said it could lead to extreme prolonged time, certain areas with heavy rain, destructive winds and storm waves of up to 12 p.m.

“It will have more time in the lower vertical shear. It will have more time with the warm waters of the ocean, and all this fuel will help him intensify,” said Hinterdorfer to the mail curry.

“It is not a good scenario to have it, you know, being a little slower, we would prefer from afar that it comes faster.”

In the past, similar slow movement cyclones have caused catastrophic destruction. In 2017, Cyclone Debbie stalled in the Southeast Queensland, triggering up to 1,000 mm of rain and triggering record floods. The same year, Hurricane Harvey in the United States dwell over Texas, pouring over 1,500 mm of precipitation and causing historic floods to Houston. In recent years, slow -moving storms have become much more common.

A new card from the Australia Meteorology Office (BOM) shows that Cyclone Alfred is now about 345 km east of Brisbane and 315 km east of the Gold Coast.

It moves to the southeast coast of Queensland at a speed of 16 km / h.

Alfred is a category 2 cyclone and should maintain this intensity as the Southeast Coast of Queensland approaches on Thursday.

Alfred is expected to cross the early Friday morning coast, probably between Maroochydore and Coolangatta, according to the nomenclature.

The officials ask people to “act now” and leave before the situation worsens.

The tropical cyclone Alfred is “not only an event of rain”, but “multiple Wind Events”, warned Mike Wassing, commissioner of the Emergency Service of the State of New South Wales.

“If you live directly on the coast and you know where your high tide is, you will see water potentially half a meter above this high tide,” said the commissioner his NSW.

“You will potentially and most likely have winds that have an impact on your location greater than 100 km / h. If you do not feel safe at this place, it’s time to move.”

The east coast of Australia is preparing for a tropical cyclone which swirls towards Brisbane, the third most populous city in the country.

Authorities warned that thousands of properties were in danger due to strong winds and sudden floods.

“If you are told to leave, you should leave. I cannot be more frank than that,” said Queensland Prime Minister David Crisafulli, ABC News, calling on residents to take into account the evacuation orders.

Destructive gusts of wind up to 155 km / h (96 MPH) should develop from Thursday afternoon while the tropical cyclone Alfred is expected to cross the coast as a category storm first Friday morning near the Queensland State Capital Brisbane, Australian Meteorological Bureau.

Queen Anne de Cunard, who left Sydney on March 1 for her inaugural world cruise in 2025, jumped Brisbane and sailed directly to Airlie Beach and arrived on Tuesday.

She will continue as planned in Cairns on March 6 and will spend an additional night in Darwin on March 10 before going to Indonesia.

The Norwegian cruise line has also canceled stops on the Cairns path, so that their ships are now sailing directly.

Cyclone Alfred led to the cancellation of a golf event and prompted Australian Football League (AFL) to postpone season opening matches.

Golf officials have canceled the WPGA championship event co-canceled by ladies on the Gold Coast in the middle of extreme wind forecasts and floods.

AFL, the high flight of Australian Australian football, reported two games in southern Queensland, including the opening of Thursday season in Brisbane between title champion Brisbane Lions and Geelong Cats.

Wednesday, football of football director of football suspended all training and matches in the south-east of the state on Wednesday.

Other sporting events have been canceled, including the national tactile football championships in South New Wales.

Cyclone Alfred could bring intense precipitation and a potentially fatal flash flood in the south-east of the Queensland state and the northeast of the state of New South Wales, said the office of Meteorology in its last update.

Thousands of residents of Queensland fled their homes while Cyclone Alfred intensified in a category two system.

Alfred changed its course to the south-eastern coast of Queensland.

The tropical cyclone should go to the ground north of the city on Thursday or Friday early.

It should provide major floods, rains and destructive winds up to 130 km / h.

Residents of Gold Coast were warned to stay inside after 6 p.m. local time (8 a.m., GMT) while floods and destructive winds of the tropical cyclone Alfred are starting to settle.

“It looks like the most important event in our city in terms of destructive winds and heavy rains that we have seen since 1954,” warned the interim mayor Donna Gates during a press conference this afternoon.

With an expected 800 mm of rain, she said the conditions will be “horrible” and warned the residents to prepare for power outages while the cyclone intensifies.

“Very strong precipitation will continue until late Friday and in the first half of Saturday,” she said.

The slowdown in cyclone Alfred could be the worst case for the Southeast Queensland, warn the experts.

The storm is currently traveling at a speed of 16 km / h, but the experts fear slowing down at 11 km / h, which is much slower than a typical system.

A slow movement could mean that Alfred will have more time to intensify, feeding on the warm waters of the ocean and the shear of the vertical wind, making it stronger before reaching the coast.

Meteorologist Thomas Hinterdorfer said it could lead to extreme prolonged time, certain areas with heavy rain, destructive winds and storm waves of up to 12 p.m.

“It will have more time in the lower vertical shear. It will have more time with the warm waters of the ocean, and all this fuel will help him intensify,” said Hinterdorfer to the mail curry.

“It is not a good scenario to have it, you know, being a little slower, we would prefer from afar that it comes faster.”

In the past, similar slow movement cyclones have caused catastrophic destruction. In 2017, Cyclone Debbie stalled in the Southeast Queensland, triggering up to 1,000 mm of rain and triggering record floods. The same year, Hurricane Harvey in the United States dwell over Texas, pouring over 1,500 mm of precipitation and causing historic floods to Houston. In recent years, slow -moving storms have become much more common.

A new card from the Australia Meteorology Office (BOM) shows that Cyclone Alfred is now about 345 km east of Brisbane and 315 km east of the Gold Coast.

It moves to the southeast coast of Queensland at a speed of 16 km / h.

Alfred is a category 2 cyclone and should maintain this intensity as the Southeast Coast of Queensland approaches on Thursday.

Alfred is expected to cross the early Friday morning coast, probably between Maroochydore and Coolangatta, according to the nomenclature.

The officials ask people to “act now” and leave before the situation worsens.

The tropical cyclone Alfred is “not only an event of rain”, but “multiple Wind Events”, warned Mike Wassing, commissioner of the Emergency Service of the State of New South Wales.

“If you live directly on the coast and you know where your high tide is, you will see water potentially half a meter above this high tide,” said the commissioner his NSW.

“You will potentially and most likely have winds that have an impact on your location greater than 100 km / h. If you do not feel safe at this place, it’s time to move.”

The east coast of Australia is preparing for a tropical cyclone which swirls towards Brisbane, the third most populous city in the country.

Authorities warned that thousands of properties were in danger due to strong winds and sudden floods.

“If you are told to leave, you should leave. I cannot be more frank than that,” said Queensland Prime Minister David Crisafulli, ABC News, calling on residents to take into account the evacuation orders.

Destructive gusts of wind up to 155 km / h (96 MPH) should develop from Thursday afternoon while the tropical cyclone Alfred is expected to cross the coast as a category storm first Friday morning near the Queensland State Capital Brisbane, Australian Meteorological Bureau.

Queen Anne de Cunard, who left Sydney on March 1 for her inaugural world cruise in 2025, jumped Brisbane and sailed directly to Airlie Beach and arrived on Tuesday.

She will continue as planned in Cairns on March 6 and will spend an additional night in Darwin on March 10 before going to Indonesia.

The Norwegian cruise line has also canceled stops on the Cairns path, so that their ships are now sailing directly.

Cyclone Alfred led to the cancellation of a golf event and prompted Australian Football League (AFL) to postpone season opening matches.

Golf officials have canceled the WPGA championship event co-canceled by ladies on the Gold Coast in the middle of extreme wind forecasts and floods.

AFL, the high flight of Australian Australian football, reported two games in southern Queensland, including the opening of Thursday season in Brisbane between title champion Brisbane Lions and Geelong Cats.

Wednesday, football of football director of football suspended all training and matches in the south-east of the state on Wednesday.

Other sporting events have been canceled, including the national tactile football championships in South New Wales.

Cyclone Alfred could bring intense precipitation and a potentially fatal flash flood in the south-east of the Queensland state and the northeast of the state of New South Wales, said the office of Meteorology in its last update.

Thousands of residents of Queensland fled their homes while Cyclone Alfred intensified in a category two system.

Alfred changed its course to the south-eastern coast of Queensland.

The tropical cyclone should go to the ground north of the city on Thursday or Friday early.

It should provide major floods, rains and destructive winds up to 130 km / h.

Residents of Gold Coast were warned to stay inside after 6 p.m. local time (8 a.m., GMT) while floods and destructive winds of the tropical cyclone Alfred are starting to settle.

“It looks like the most important event in our city in terms of destructive winds and heavy rains that we have seen since 1954,” warned the interim mayor Donna Gates during a press conference this afternoon.

With an expected 800 mm of rain, she said the conditions will be “horrible” and warned the residents to prepare for power outages while the cyclone intensifies.

“Very strong precipitation will continue until late Friday and in the first half of Saturday,” she said.

The slowdown in cyclone Alfred could be the worst case for the Southeast Queensland, warn the experts.

The storm is currently traveling at a speed of 16 km / h, but the experts fear slowing down at 11 km / h, which is much slower than a typical system.

A slow movement could mean that Alfred will have more time to intensify, feeding on the warm waters of the ocean and the shear of the vertical wind, making it stronger before reaching the coast.

Meteorologist Thomas Hinterdorfer said it could lead to extreme prolonged time, certain areas with heavy rain, destructive winds and storm waves of up to 12 p.m.

“It will have more time in the lower vertical shear. It will have more time with the warm waters of the ocean, and all this fuel will help him intensify,” said Hinterdorfer to the mail curry.

“It is not a good scenario to have it, you know, being a little slower, we would prefer from afar that it comes faster.”

In the past, similar slow movement cyclones have caused catastrophic destruction. In 2017, Cyclone Debbie stalled in the Southeast Queensland, triggering up to 1,000 mm of rain and triggering record floods. The same year, Hurricane Harvey in the United States dwell over Texas, pouring over 1,500 mm of precipitation and causing historic floods to Houston. In recent years, slow -moving storms have become much more common.

A new card from the Australia Meteorology Office (BOM) shows that Cyclone Alfred is now about 345 km east of Brisbane and 315 km east of the Gold Coast.

It moves to the southeast coast of Queensland at a speed of 16 km / h.

Alfred is a category 2 cyclone and should maintain this intensity as the Southeast Coast of Queensland approaches on Thursday.

Alfred is expected to cross the early Friday morning coast, probably between Maroochydore and Coolangatta, according to the nomenclature.

The officials ask people to “act now” and leave before the situation worsens.

The tropical cyclone Alfred is “not only an event of rain”, but “multiple Wind Events”, warned Mike Wassing, commissioner of the Emergency Service of the State of New South Wales.

“If you live directly on the coast and you know where your high tide is, you will see water potentially half a meter above this high tide,” said the commissioner his NSW.

“You will potentially and most likely have winds that have an impact on your location greater than 100 km / h. If you do not feel safe at this place, it’s time to move.”

The east coast of Australia is preparing for a tropical cyclone which swirls towards Brisbane, the third most populous city in the country.

Authorities warned that thousands of properties were in danger due to strong winds and sudden floods.

“If you are told to leave, you should leave. I cannot be more frank than that,” said Queensland Prime Minister David Crisafulli, ABC News, calling on residents to take into account the evacuation orders.

Destructive gusts of wind up to 155 km / h (96 MPH) should develop from Thursday afternoon while the tropical cyclone Alfred is expected to cross the coast as a category storm first Friday morning near the Queensland State Capital Brisbane, Australian Meteorological Bureau.

Queen Anne de Cunard, who left Sydney on March 1 for her inaugural world cruise in 2025, jumped Brisbane and sailed directly to Airlie Beach and arrived on Tuesday.

She will continue as planned in Cairns on March 6 and will spend an additional night in Darwin on March 10 before going to Indonesia.

The Norwegian cruise line has also canceled stops on the Cairns path, so that their ships are now sailing directly.

Cyclone Alfred led to the cancellation of a golf event and prompted Australian Football League (AFL) to postpone season opening matches.

Golf officials have canceled the WPGA championship event co-canceled by ladies on the Gold Coast in the middle of extreme wind forecasts and floods.

AFL, the high flight of Australian Australian football, reported two games in southern Queensland, including the opening of Thursday season in Brisbane between title champion Brisbane Lions and Geelong Cats.

Wednesday, football of football director of football suspended all training and matches in the south-east of the state on Wednesday.

Other sporting events have been canceled, including the national tactile football championships in South New Wales.

Cyclone Alfred could bring intense precipitation and a potentially fatal flash flood in the south-east of the Queensland state and the northeast of the state of New South Wales, said the office of Meteorology in its last update.

Thousands of residents of Queensland fled their homes while Cyclone Alfred intensified in a category two system.

Alfred changed its course to the south-eastern coast of Queensland.

The tropical cyclone should go to the ground north of the city on Thursday or Friday early.

It should provide major floods, rains and destructive winds up to 130 km / h.