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21m in the pastThu 6 Mar 2025 at 4:31pm
Wind gusts hit triple digits
Winds are beginning to choose up throughout coastal areas of southeast Queensland and northeastern New South Wales, in response to the BOM’s climate stations.
At Cape Byron, a wind gust of 111 kilometres an hour was recorded at 3:17am AEDT.
The ten-minute common is 83 kilometres an hour there.
Simply north of the border, a 100-kilometre-an-hour gust was recorded at Coolangatta at 1:43am AEST right now.
In the meantime, nearer to Brisbane a wind gust of 85 kilometres an hour was recorded at Cape Moreton simply after midnight.
It is positively getting windy.
47m in the pastThu 6 Mar 2025 at 4:05pm
Extra from the newest replace
Just a few different issues within the newest warning simply earlier than 2am of observe:
- Tropical Cyclone Alfred is nonetheless a class 2 — the Bureau forecasts it’ll stay at that stage till the centre begins to hit the coast. It is packing winds of 95 kilometres an hour, with gusts as much as 130 kilometres an hour.
- Alfred remains to be on observe to cross the coast on Friday night time or early Saturday morning.
- Warnings stay in place for heavy rainfall, domestically intense rain fall resulting in harmful and life-threatening flash flooding, a danegerous storm tide, abnormally excessive tides, damaging surf, damaging wind gusts and harmful wind guys.
Newest BOM warning: Rainfall and wind impacts to extend
The Bureau of Meteorology has simply launched a brand new warning for 1:53am.
Here is the cyclone observe map:
The warning zone stays the identical: from Double Island Level in Queensland to Grafton in New South Wales, together with Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Byron Bay and Ballina however not together with Grafton.
BOM is warning Tropical Cyclone Alfred transferring slowly in direction of the southeast Queensland coast. Rainfall is growing and wind impacts are anticipated to extend in a single day.
20,000 properties with out energy in SEQ
Whereas we await the newest 2am replace from the Bureau of Meteorology, let’s take a look on the energy community.
The supplier for the northern NSW area hasn’t offered an replace since Thursday afternoon.
In the meantime, Energex, the electrical energy provider for Queensland, is reporting widespread disruption to its energy community on the Gold Coast.
Greater than 20,000 clients have been with out energy as of 1:45am, of which greater than 17,500 have been on the Gold Coast.
The Energex outage finder says injury from the cyclone is the reason for lots of the unplanned outages, affecting massive elements of the Gold Coast hinterland, elements of Tweed Heads and Burleigh Waters.
An extra 2,000 properties are with out energy within the Redlands space, on Brisbane’s bayside.
Good morning and welcome to Friday’s weblog
We’re on board to carry you the newest developments as Tropical Cyclone Alfred slowly makes its approach to the south-east Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales coasts.
Already the Bureau of Meteorology says elements of the coast are being impacted by damaging winds.
We’ll have the newest warnings from the BOM in a second.
