Australians brace for ‘significant damage’ as tropical Cyclone Narelle makes landfall - Queensland premier warns cyclone could trigger flash flooding

Tropical cyclone Narelle is set to make landfall earlier and more forcefully than expected, impacting Far North Queensland and parts of the Northern Territory. Narelle is reported to have reached category 5 intensity almost 12 hours before it was originally predicted for 10pm on Thursday (Brisbane Times).

Residents in northern Australia have been warned to brace for one of the most severe cyclones in "living memory" after authorities

The weather bureau expects the storm could hit Queensland’s coastline as early as Thursday night, but communities have already started evacuating.

Staff and scientists on Lizard Island waited out a category 5 cyclone from inside a bunker built so solid they did not even hear the wind, the director of the island’s marine research station has revealed.

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A Category 5 cyclone is about to hit northeastern Australia, one of the strongest on record for the region

Staff at a luxury resort owned by Andrew Forrest off the Far North Queensland coast have been evacuated and schools have closed as the region prepares for a category 5 cyclone to hit on Friday. Tropical Cyclone Narelle was upgraded to a category 5 system on Thursday morning and residents between Lockhart River and Cape Melville have been told to prepare for widespread destruction from Friday morning.