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Australian insurers and government agencies are preparing for an extended period of severe weather as Tropical Cyclone Narelle intensifies off the Queensland coast and moves toward Cape York, with forecasters warning it could be the most significant system in decades for some communities.

Horacio is spinning in the remote South Indian Ocean. It's a reminder that the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season is only three months away.

Australia is bracing for what could be Queensland’s worst tropical cyclone in living memory as Storm Narelle bears down on the far north coast. The storm, a category 5 system with wind gusts of up to 300kmph at its eye, was expected to make landfall on Friday near Coen, a remote town on Cape York peninsula.

Rio Tinto Group shut two bauxite mines as tropical cyclone Narelle struck Australia’s Northern Queensland coast on Friday morning, lashing the region […]

It may still be 75 days until the start of the Atlantic hurricane season, but cyclone season has been well underway down under--having started Nov. 1, 2025. Australia's Bureau of Meteorology is warning of a major Category 4 cyclone,