Tropical Cyclone Alfred's centre is expected to cross the coast early Saturday morning, with impacts already being felt across south-east Queensland and northern NSW.
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. Take a look back at our live blog.
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Tropical Cyclone Alfred will continue its approach towards the south-east Queensland coast today, with the far western edge already impacting the coast from about Coolangatta to Ballina.
The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), said warnings remained in place for heavy rainfall, locally intense rain fall leading to dangerous and life-threatening flash flooding, a dangerous storm tide, abnormally high tides, damaging surf, damaging wind gusts and destructive wind gusts.
A senior meteorologist said while the cyclone's movement slowed overnight, that could mean further destruction.
While Cyclone Alfred’s landfall could “now push into Saturday morning”, later than originally forecast, it is still expected to bring significant challenges, Queensland Premier David Crisafulli warned on Thursday. Alfred had originally been forecast to smash into the southern Queensland and northern NSW coast on Friday.
Authorities warn strong winds from Tropical Cyclone Alfred could mask the truly terrifying risk of devastating flooding and stormwater surges.
As millions wait for Cyclone Alfred to make landfall, not everyone is looking to the Bureau of Meteorology for their information.
Wild weather is expected to hit south-east Queensland from Wednesday night as Tropical Cyclone Alfred nears, as those in north-eastern NSW brace for "three natural disasters in one".
As Cyclone Alfred slowed it’s track to southeast Queensland to a crawl overnight, pushing out its expected landfall to later Friday or even Saturday, we asked four experts what that could mean for the system’s impact.
Tropical Cyclone Alfred is now headed for the southeast Queensland coast, with millions of residents warned to prepare as the storm brings massive waves, isolated rainfalls of up