Sydney, March 26 (IANS) Authorities have warned that Tropical Cyclone Narelle will hit Australia’s northwest coast as a severe Category 4 storm after sweeping across the country.The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said in an update at 5 a.m. Australian Western Standard Time on Thursday (2100 GMT on Wednesday), Tropical Cyclone Narelle was 240 km off the north coast of Western Australia (WA) and steadily intensifying.It said that the cyclone was at Category 3 strength as of Thursday morning and expec…
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Sydney, March 19 (IANS) Emergency warnings have been issued for thousands of people as Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle approaches the northeast coast of Australia’s Queensland.The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said in an update at 7 a.m. Australian Eastern Standard Time on Thursday (2100 GMT on Wednesday) that Tropical Cyclone Narelle had reached Category 4 strength and could intensify into a Category 5 storm before making landfall early on Friday.The BoM said that very destructive wind gusts in e…
Sydney, March 7 (IANS) Five people were rescued, and patients have been evacuated from a hospital amid major flooding in the Australian state of Queensland and the neighbouring Northern Territory (NT).Flood warnings were in place for rivers and catchments across most of Queensland as of Saturday morning due to heavy rainfall from a slow-moving tropical storm that made landfall on the state’s northeast coast on Friday afternoon local time.The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said the tropical low was …
Sydney, March 6 (IANS) A severe weather warning for dangerous flash flooding has been issued in Australia’s Queensland as a tropical low storm system approaches the state’s northeast coast.The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) said in the warning that the tropical low was expected to bring intense rainfall to a 350-km stretch of coast in Queensland’s tropical far north from Friday morning.”Locally intense rainfall, which may lead to dangerous and life-threatening flash flooding, is possible this morni…
Melbourne, March 4 (IANS) Tickets for the season-opening Formula One Australian Grand Prix have sold out in record time, organisers said on Wednesday.The Australian Grand Prix Corporation and government of the state of Victoria said that tickets are fully exhausted across Friday, Saturday and Sunday, marking the earliest three-day sellout in the event’s history, reports Xinhua.The 2026 Formula One season will begin with two practice sessions at Melbourne’s Albert Park Circuit on Friday before an…
Melbourne, March 2 (IANS) Emergency warnings for life-threatening flash flooding have been issued for vast areas of the southeast Australian states of Victoria and New South Wales (NSW).The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) on Monday issued severe weather warnings for heavy and locally intense rainfall across regions in central and northern Victoria and south and southwestern NSW.It said that six-hourly rainfall totaling up to 100 mm was possible on Monday across the warning area spanning over 650 km …
Melbourne, Jan 24 (IANS) Climate change made early January’s southeastern Australia heatwave five times more likely, scientists say, as the country braces for another 50 degrees Celsius scorcher on Saturday. The Bureau of Meteorology has issued heatwave warnings for Australia’s every mainland state and territory, while the state of Victoria has declared a total fire ban amid extreme conditions. In the state capital Melbourne, extreme heat had forced Australian Open tennis tournament officials to…
Sydney, Jan 18 (IANS) A landslide impacted three houses in northern Sydney as life-threatening flash flooding has prompted evacuation orders.Residents of the Narrabeen Lagoon area in Sydney’s Northern Beaches, around 19 km north of the central business district, were told to evacuate shortly before 11 p.m. local time Saturday due to rising floodwaters caused by storms that brought intense rainfall, reports Xinhua news agency.The State Emergency Service (SES) said on Sunday morning that authoriti…
Sydney, Jan 14 (IANS) The Premier of Australia’s Queensland said on Wednesday that regions in the state’s north and northwest remain at risk of flooding despite easing rainfall.David Crisafulli told Nine Network television on Wednesday morning that parts of Queensland’s tropical north and northwest have received more rainfall over the past week than they typically would in an average year.According to forecasts from the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM), rainfall across Queensland was expected to ease…
Sydney, Jan 13 (IANS) Flood warnings have been issued across the northeast Australian state of Queensland as ex-Tropical Cyclone Koji continues to cause widespread intense rainfall.As of Tuesday morning local time, the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) had multiple flood warnings in place for rivers and catchments in central, northeast and northwest Queensland after some regions received more than a year’s worth of rainfall in one week.In the small town of Clermont, about 750 km northwest of the state…