HomeWorldTropical Cyclone Alfred updates: Elements of Queensland and NSW brace for 'important'...

Tropical Cyclone Alfred updates: Elements of Queensland and NSW brace for ‘important’ rainfall — because it occurred

13h in the pastMon 3 Mar 2025 at 12:31am

Keep updated with the most recent emergency warnings

ABC Emergency will broadcast common warnings on ABC Radio. You could find extra data, together with a map of all of the warnings, by clicking right here.

  • Brisbane: 612AM,
  • Gold Coast: 91.7FM
  • Sunshine Coast: 90.3FM, 95.3FM or 1566AM
  • Large Bay: 855AM, 100.1FM, 88.3FM
  • NSW North Coast Richmond and Tweed: 94.5 FM 
  • Murwillumbah: 720 AM  
  • Grafton: 738 AM

It’s also possible to discover these stations on the ABC Pay attention App

5h in the pastMon 3 Mar 2025 at 8:31am

That is the place we’ll go away our reside protection

Claudia Williams profile image

Thanks for becoming a member of us and keep secure.

Tropical Cyclone Alfred is at the moment a class one system and is anticipated to accentuate to a class two cyclone tonight.

The climate bureau says it is anticipated to make landfall between Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast late on Thursday or Friday morning.

Jessica van Vonderen and Jenny Woodward are standing by for Queensland’s 7pm TV information.

They’ll take you thru in the present day’s high developments, the most recent climate warnings and forecasts.

Premier David Crisafulli will be part of them reside.

Tune in to ABC TV at 7pm or stream the information reside on iview:

5h in the pastMon 3 Mar 2025 at 8:25am

Queensland Surf Life Saving championships cancelled attributable to TC Alfred

Claudia Williams profile image

The championships had been set to be held at North Kirra from Friday to Sunday.

 “The protection of our opponents, officers and employees comes first,” carnival committee chair Nigel Ward says.

“We additionally wanted to consider the security round journey for our members to and from the occasion, given folks come from throughout Queensland to participate.

“The modelling and recommendation acquired is that circumstances are anticipated to deteriorate all through the week, with large-scale seaside closures throughout the state already confirmed.”

6h in the pastMon 3 Mar 2025 at 8:16am

IN PHOTOS: Browsing Mooloolaba

Julius Dennis profile image

A man surfing a wave full of sand.
(Equipped: David Cook dinner)
a man drop-kneeing on a blue body board.
(Equipped: David Cook dinner)
A man suring a wave. Apartments in the background.
(Equipped: David Cook dinner)
A black and white photo of a man surfing, the wave breaking over his head to create a tube of water.
(Equipped: David Cook dinner)

6h in the pastMon 3 Mar 2025 at 7:56am

How do I put together for a cyclone?

Melanie Vujkovic profile image

It is the primary time many individuals in south-east Queensland will expertise the direct results of a tropical cyclone, given the final one was in 1974.

Here’s a information on how one can put together for TC Alfred.

6h in the pastMon 3 Mar 2025 at 7:51am

Vacation-makers packing up on Sunshine Coast

Claudia Williams profile image

lcimg 0ba4dcdd e11c 4bee 8182 8216e8862f7d
Narelle Russell and Kathleen Hudson. (ABC Information: Lottie Twyford )

Reporting by Janel Shorthouse and Lottie Twyford 

Gold Coast resident Narelle Russell and Kathleen Hudson from Logan determined to chop their vacation brief and pack up.

“I might like to only get house and away from this … since you simply do not know … you’ll be able to’t play with Mom Nature,” Ms Hudson mentioned.

“It is unpredictable,” added Ms Russell.

Jason Filippini, who manages Cotton Tree Vacation Park close to Maroochydore and 4 different parks, mentioned about 30 per cent of friends had been staying in place, whereas most had left early or cancelled.

lcimg 975dac3b 2dc3 4a1c 8b96 35a7e59514dd
Jason Filippini. (ABC Information: Lottie Twyford )

He mentioned he could be working carefully with the parks’ everlasting residents to make sure that they had a secure place to evacuate to if wanted and had been asking them to contemplate “alternate lodging preparations” for the top of the week.

6h in the pastMon 3 Mar 2025 at 7:40am

The way to maintain your pet secure in a extreme climate occasion

Claudia Williams profile image

“Making a secure area for them, having some sort of speaker system setup to permit them to have music on,” Greenbank Vet Hospital’s Stuart Unsworth informed ABC Radio Brisbane.

“Some canine reply very well to thunder jackets. These heavy weighted jackets will be actually useful so in case your canine is basically nervous, coming out and getting a kind of may also help them with managing a number of the extra extreme signs of storm phobias.”

Dr Unsworth says some residents is perhaps confronted with attempting to take care of bigger out of doors animals or cattle.

“Make sure that the out of doors services are as ready as potential — attempting to make your home and buildings as wind proof as potential.”

6h in the pastMon 3 Mar 2025 at 7:33am

Lengthy traces for sandbags on the Gold Coast

Julius Dennis profile image

Reporting by Danielle Mahe

Maureen Value mentioned she needed to wait about an hour and a half on the depot for sandbags at Burleigh Heads on the Gold Coast.

Regardless of the lengthy queues, she mentioned she was glad that she was capable of get some sandbags to guard her house.

“There’s going to be a variety of rain, and I used to be simply frightened concerning the water getting in beneath the glass sliding doorways — so I simply thought, simply to be secure, I higher get some sandbags,” she says.

A woman in a blue car while two people put things in the boot.
Maureen lined up for greater than an hour. (ABC Information: Danielle Mahe)

6h in the pastMon 3 Mar 2025 at 7:24am

Some ferry companies to island to be restricted

Kym Agius profile image

A head shot of Tanya Groom smiling to the camera, wearing a bright yellow top with anchors.
Tanya Groom mentioned some companies will probably be restricted on Wednesday. (ABC Information: Will Murray)

Reporting by Will Murray

Tanya Groom owns the passenger ferry, the Stradbroke Flyer, which companies North Stradbroke Island.

She mentioned their giant vessel Calypso will dock on Wednesday and their different ferry Legacy will probably be on restricted companies on Wednseday and Thursday.

“There’s the possiblily of no companies Friday, Saturday and Sunday, relying on the cyclone.”

In the meantime, car ferries to the Southern Moreton Bay Islands will function on a decreased schedule on Tuesday.

lcimg 03aa5ee3 cfd9 4f53 a9b2 6673ee1c0cde
(ABC Information: Will Murray)
7h in the pastMon 3 Mar 2025 at 7:14am

This is the most recent from the BOM

Claudia Williams profile image

Tropical Cyclone Alfred is about 500km east, north-east of Brisbane and 480km east of Maroochydore and is shifting south-east at 14kph.

The BOM says folks between Sandy Cape in Queensland and Grafton in NSW ought to take into account what motion they might want to take if the cyclone menace will increase.

It’s at the moment a class one system and is anticipated to accentuate to a class two cyclone tonight as its south-eastwards motion slows.

“Alfred’s depth might fluctuate between class one and two whereas it stays off the coast throughout Tuesday and Wednesday,” the BOM says.

It is anticipated to make landfall between Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast late on Thursday or Friday morning.

Damaging wind gusts of as much as 120 kph are anticipated to develop between Tewantin and Grafton throughout Wednesday.

Heavy rainfall is forecast for south-east Queensland and northeastern NSW from Wednesday.

7h in the pastMon 3 Mar 2025 at 7:07am

What are you able to anticipate with a class 2 cyclone?

Melanie Vujkovic profile image

In keeping with the Bureau of Meteorology, if TC Alfred crosses as a cat 2 system, that is what you’ll be able to anticipate:

  • Damaging winds. Minor home injury. 
  • Vital injury to indicators, bushes and caravans. 
  • Heavy injury to some crops. 
  • Threat of energy failure. 
  • Small craft might break moorings

A most imply wind velocity is normally between 89–117 kph.

The standard strongest gust is 125–164 kph.

lcimg 17fd4da3 fff1 4dff a7fa fcc1ff08f36c
(windy.com)

7h in the pastMon 3 Mar 2025 at 6:58am

Brisbane residents ‘nervous’

Julius Dennis profile image

Reporting by Emma Pollard

 Aleah Kaden lives in a low-lying house at Lota on Brisbane’s bayside.

A man and a woman standing on their driveway with their son. Behind them is a trailer full of green waste.
Aleah Kaden, Simon Clark and their son Iziah are preparing. (ABC Information: Emma Pollard)

She’s by no means been in a cyclone earlier than and is getting ready by clearing inexperienced waste and securing potential projectiles together with her son’s trampoline.

“I’ve bought a variety of pot vegetation and unfastened issues that I’ve bought to tidy up,” Ms Kaden says.

“We will flip the trampoline.”

She mentioned she’s feeling “a bit nervous” and is not certain what to anticipate.

A man and a woman standing at their fence with their son looking out at mangroves and a blue sky.
Blue skies in Brisbane for now. (ABC Information: Emma Pollard)

7h in the pastMon 3 Mar 2025 at 6:47am

Police warn in opposition to ‘silly’ behaviour on Sunshine Coast

Claudia Williams profile image

lcimg 1b458493 f22d 46c9 89bf 9fecac1d896d
Superintendent Craig Hawkins. (ABC Information: Lottie Twyford)

Reporting by Janel Shorthouse and Lottie Twyford 

Superintendent Craig Hawkins says folks ought to take into account the potential affect of their behaviour on others.

“What we do not need to see is folks out doing silly issues that solely trigger further and pointless actions … that not solely put emergency companies in danger, however put yourselves in danger,” he mentioned.

Policing sources on the coast are being bolstered by the arrival of their colleagues from unaffected areas of the state forward of TC Alfred’s anticipated crossing of the coast later this week.

7h in the pastMon 3 Mar 2025 at 6:36am

Brisbane mayor urges residents to organize earlier than circumstances ramp up from Wednesday

Claudia Williams profile image

“Issues will begin to gear up Wednesday night, all through Thursday and Friday to the top of the week,” Adrian Schrinner informed ABC Radio Brisbane.

“We don’t know precisely the place the cyclone will hit however we all know it’s coming for south-east Queensland so all of south-east Queensland must be prepared.

“All the best way from Okay’gari all the best way all the way down to the border.”

He says buying and selling hours for useful resource restoration centres have been prolonged to offer extra time to clear yards of particles.

“Individuals have been requested to contemplate tinned meals, batteries for torches – what’s going to you do when you don’t have energy.”

Mr Schrinner says there are nonetheless 60,000 sandbags out there after 40,000 have been taken.

“We’re producing extra sandbags at each location in the present day however that’s a course of that takes a while,” he says.

7h in the pastMon 3 Mar 2025 at 6:28am

Mayor says CityCat companies not working on Tuesday

Claudia Williams profile image

lcimg 9cf4e6ce 0d4a 4033 8f6e d7be7681f68a
(ABC Information: Christopher Gillette)

Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner says CityCat ferries will probably be suspended from Tuesday till additional discover following recommendation from Maritime Security Queensland.

“Due to the scale of the fleet, with the intention to make them secure, it’s going to take a while,” he says.

“We’re ensuring we’re getting all of the vessels we will out of the water.”

8h in the pastMon 3 Mar 2025 at 6:20am

TC Alfred about 400km east to north-east of Brisbane

Claudia Williams profile image

Senior Meteorologist Falem Hanniffy informed ABC Information Brisbane it might cross the coast as a class two system wherever between Coffs Harbour and Bundaberg.

Nonetheless it’s trying extra prone to be cross between Logan and the south finish of the Large Bay.

“If you’re on or south of that system, anticipate to see the worst of the circumstances with the system and positively the flooding threat is prone to proceed many days after the system strikes inland and weakens.”

“It’s the rainfall with this method that would be the important watch level for the following couple of days.”

8h in the pastMon 3 Mar 2025 at 6:11am

Closures from Rainbow Seashore to the Gold Coast

Claudia Williams profile image

lcimg 961554a6 a991 436c 9c16 c0bb0ce54256
Seashores are closed throughout Queensland. (ABC Information: Steve Eager)

Surf Life Saving Queensland Greg Cahill says it isn’t the time to go for a seaside stroll, swim or surf.

“Over the weekend we had 66 rescues, which is 66 rescues too many particularly when the seashores are closed,” he says.

“We had swimmers but in addition surfers and craft riders that had been taking far too adventurous choices to exit in surf that’s means too huge and too excessive for his or her skills.”

lcimg 5a43c8bd e01c 444b 96cf c805ec7cad86
Mooloolaba seaside. (ABC Information: Josh Dye)

He says Queenslanders ought to keep out of the water.

“It’s actually extreme highly effective surf circumstances and we’re seeing examples of seaside erosion so now shouldn’t be the time to go to the seaside,” he says.

“When it is time and secure once more we’ll let .”

8h in the pastMon 3 Mar 2025 at 6:03am

‘Not many’ turtle nests uncovered

Claudia Williams profile image

lcimg ba06a329 4f2a 49e5 aeb4 e7df5b7bb866
Hatchlings at Mon Repos. (ABC Information: Johanna Marie)

Reporting by Grace Whiteside

Mon Repos, close to Bundaberg, helps the biggest focus of nesting marine turtles on the jap Australian mainland.

Its turtle centre will reopen on Tuesday night time after excessive tides and damaging swells smashed the seaside over the weekend.

“We had been probably considering we had been going to get a serious erosion occasion, however luckily there’s been solely minor erosion,” ranger Shane O’Connor says.

“There was a variety of wave wash excessive of the place the nests are and a few deposition of sand, however regarding the turtles, we’re assured it’s minimal injury.”

lcimg 16542d8e 6730 4037 8626 2f3a02dcc3b9
(ABC Information: Johanna Marie)

Mr O’Connor says rangers recurrently relocate low-lying clutches to larger elements of the seaside.

“So hardly ever, except now we have main erosion occasions, is that this an issue, and since we did not get a lot erosion, not many nests had been uncovered in any respect.”

8h in the pastMon 3 Mar 2025 at 5:49am

WATCH: Greater than 50 years since TC has made landfall over SEQ

Claudia Williams profile image

Nonetheless, ABC meteorologist Tom Saunders says there have been 4 tropical cyclones inside a 200km radius of Brisbane between 1971 and 1974.

He explains why we’re seeing a cyclone now.

Loading…

8h in the pastMon 3 Mar 2025 at 5:42am

‘Apprehensive’: Northern Rivers residents put together for TC Alfred

Claudia Williams profile image

lcimg bdf5c0c4 80dc 4a91 9de6 959e1965357e
(ABC Information: Emma Rennie)

Reporting by Emma Rennie

The NSW SES has been offering sandbags to folks all through the Northern Rivers area forward of extra extreme circumstances forecast.

On the Ballina assortment web site, Ros says  she was feeling “a bit apprehensive”.

However after the record-breaking 2022 floods, she says she “is aware of find out how to get ready.”

lcimg 569831ad d249 4748 90ad 8d94b666c26d
Ros says she is feeling apprehensive. (ABC Information: Emma Rennie)

That sentiment was echoed by Lisa, who had additionally stocked up on contemporary water and tinned meals.

lcimg 0a91e9f1 db64 45f4 97ef 716012cf54dd
Chris and Kurt. (ABC Information: Emma Rennie)

Whereas they initially arrived to get sandbags for themselves, father and son workforce Chris and Kurt stayed to assist others top off.

“We did not get any sandbags final time [in 2022], as a result of it got here up fairly fast … so this time we’re much more ready,” Chris says.

RELATED ARTICLES

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here

- Advertisment -

Most Popular