Category 4 Tropical Cyclone Narelle strikes Australia
Tropical Cyclone Narelle makes landfall as a powerful category 4 storm in Australia.
A satellite loop of Cyclone Narelle on Friday evening.
Tropical Cyclone Narelle made a rare landfall Friday morning as a Category 4 storm on Australia's Cape York Peninsula between Lockhart River and Coen. As of Friday afternoon, local time, the storm is equivalent in strength to a Category 3 hurricane, moving back over the Gulf of Carpentaria.
The forecast for Cyclone Narelle on Friday night local time.
Rain and wind will continue to impact the Cape York Peninsula through Friday night.
Narelle could make three landfalls
The first landfall occurred in Far North Queensland, along the east coast of the Cape York Peninsula. Narelle could make another two separate landfalls across Northern Australia in the coming days, increasing the risk of repeated impacts.
The storm is the strongest to hit the area in at least 10 years
Narelle is the strongest tropical cyclone to strike Queensland since Ita in 2014. The strongest storm to make landfall in Queensland was Yassi in 2011, and Narelle is rivaling its intensity.
The last Category 5 on the Bureau of Meteorology scale (which Narelle is today) to make landfall in Queensland was Marcia in 2015.
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