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Cyclone Alfred landfall delayed
ABC NEWS (Australia)
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3/6/2025
A closer look at where tropical Cyclone Alfred is tracking now as it heads towards the Queensland south coast
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The latest Alfred track map from the Bureau of Meteorology was issued for 11 a.m. Queensland
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time, 12 p.m. New South Wales time.
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New update?
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Well, new delay.
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We're now likely to see it crossing the coast as a Category 2 system, but not until the
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early hours of Saturday morning.
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Still, we've got the same cyclone warnings in place from Double Island Point down to
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Grafton in New South Wales, though it doesn't include that city.
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You will see the winds really along the east coast extending quite a good ways to the south
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of the system.
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Now, we do have some warnings that have changed as well.
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The coastal hazards for parts of Queensland and New South Wales.
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Some areas now cancel.
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The area north from the coast, around about Gympie, up to the top of Garry, Fraser Island,
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now no longer under warnings.
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Same, same from the area just south of Nambucca Heads to just south of Foster, no longer under
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severe weather warnings for abnormally high tides and for some dangerous damaging surf
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that could cause coastal erosion.
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But those warnings remain in place right across that region, where we've also got warnings
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for damaging to destructive winds and for heavy to intense rainfall.
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That's likely to continue.
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The reason the ocean related warnings or the coastal warnings have been eased is because
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the system is now close enough to the coast that it's not creating those most dangerous
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swells.
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So hazardous surf still continues all the way up through the Garry coast and all the
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way down at the moment, potentially all the way down to Eden and tomorrow that retracts
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back towards the Sydney coast, but still very dangerous seas out there.
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We are seeing the system moving towards the coast, but at a much slower rate, and that
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means that even for those areas that are in the very western fringe of the system and
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are already experiencing some dangerous weather, it means it's going to last for longer.
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Damaging winds have been recorded, gusts pushing towards 100 kilometres an hour.
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Just for Moreton Cape this morning, 95 kilometre an hour gusts measured at Cape Byron.
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Heavy rainfall has been around too, we've seen hundreds of millimetres in parts of New
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South Wales, 180 millimetres plus in southern Queensland.
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Some minor flooding already this morning.
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As the day progresses, we're likely to see conditions rapidly deteriorating, particularly
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as we get into tonight for that part of the coast around Alfred.
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Now, the delay and any subsequent delays will just mean longer periods with those very windy,
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very wet conditions and that big surf damaging the coastline.
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In the coming days, we will see the system make a crossing, but it will be particularly
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slow moving as it does.
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It will weaken relatively quickly over the course of perhaps 10 hours after making first
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crossing over Moreton Island, but it will stay in the vicinity of Brisbane at this stage
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for quite some time.
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That means that we could see that coastal inundation from an elevated storm tide continuing
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for hours and likely including the high tide as well.
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Then once that system slips to the south and through New South Wales into Victoria, the
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rainfall is going to continue for some in the east coast of Queensland and northern
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New South Wales.
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That will slow the recession of any waters.
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We are expecting flooding, likely major flooding for some, hundreds of millimetres in a six-hour
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period potentially and certainly hundreds of millimetres day on day for several days
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for this region.
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So, flooding is a major concern.
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Flood watches remain current for all of the rivers in southeastern Queensland and northeastern
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New South Wales.
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It's just a little bit of a delay in what's going to be a very dangerous few days.
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