The 2025 hurricane season is off to a brisk start in the eastern Pacific with five named storms forming before the Atlantic has seen one - a pattern that has historically suggested that parts of the ...

Tropical Cyclone Alfred is lingering off the coast of Queensland, bringing hazardous surf and gale-force winds to coastal communities. Coastal communities in northern Australia are no stranger ...

Cyclone Yasi, a category 5 monster that flattened north Queensland in 2011, caused $800 million in property damage alone, while Cyclone Alfred in 2025 threatened southeast Queensland. So what is a ...

“So it might be a severe system on landfall, but it’s unlikely to be at category 5,” Mr Sharpe said. Tropical Cyclone team leader Andrew Burton agreed, and said Jasper was “nothing like ...

Yasi, a category five storm, shredded canefields and felled banana trees as it pummelled the coast around Innisfail, just five years after major cyclone Larry ... facing a Aus$5.6 billion clean ...

The damage from Darwin's Cyclone Tracy in 1974 was estimated to be $200 million. That was only a Category Four storm ... A powerful La Nina fuelled Cyclone Yasi which devastated north Queensland.

A tropical cyclone nearing Australia is forecast to be the most powerful storm in 12 years to hit the country, bringing wind gusts of up to 315 kilometres per hour as it crosses the northwest ...

The last Category 5 storm to cross the Australian coast was Cyclone Yasi in 2011. Yasi caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage in the east coast state of Queensland. The only death blamed ...

Cyclone Yasi falls into that category of occasions ... The same hall had been devastated by Larry but was now rebuilt to Cat 5 standard, and proved safe, even as the roof of an adjacent building ...