Tropical Cyclone Alfred’s centre is expected to cross the coast early Saturday morning, with impacts already being felt across south-east Queensland and northern NSW.
The category two system is expected to remain of similar intensity until the centre starts to interact with the coast and islands.
Follow our live updates below.
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- 1h ago1 hours agoThu 6 Mar 2025 at 3:59pm
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- 1h ago1 hours agoThu 6 Mar 2025 at 3:52pm
57m agoThu 6 Mar 2025 at 4:03pm
ABC Emergency will broadcast regular warnings on ABC Radio. You can find more information, including a map of all the warnings, by clicking here.
- Brisbane: 612 AM and Digital Radio
- Gold Coast: 91.7 FM and Digital Radio
- Sunshine Coast: 90.3 FM or 95.3 FM
- Lismore, Tweed and surrounds: 94.5 FM
- Grafton and surrounds: 738 AM
- Coffs Harbour and Mid-North Coast: 92.3 FM and 684 AM
- Port Macquarie: 95.5 FM
- Taree: 756 AM
You can also find these stations on the ABC Listen App
29m agoThu 6 Mar 2025 at 4:31pm
Winds are starting to pick up across coastal areas of southeast Queensland and northeastern New South Wales, according to the BOM’s weather stations.
At Cape Byron, a wind gust of 111 kilometres an hour was recorded at 3:17am AEDT.
The 10-minute average is 83 kilometres an hour there.
Just north of the border, a 100-kilometre-an-hour gust was recorded at Coolangatta at 1:43am AEST today.
Meanwhile, closer to Brisbane a wind gust of 85 kilometres an hour was recorded at Cape Moreton just after midnight.
It’s definitely getting windy.
55m agoThu 6 Mar 2025 at 4:05pm
A few other things in the latest warning just before 2am of note:
- Tropical Cyclone Alfred is still a category 2 — the Bureau forecasts it will remain at that level until the centre starts to hit the coast. It’s packing winds of 95 kilometres an hour, with gusts up to 130 kilometres an hour.
- Alfred is still on track to cross the coast on Friday night or early Saturday morning.
- Warnings remain in place for heavy rainfall, locally intense rain fall leading to dangerous and life-threatening flash flooding, a danegerous storm tide, abnormally high tides, damaging surf, damaging wind gusts and destructive wind guys.
1h agoThu 6 Mar 2025 at 3:59pm
The Bureau of Meteorology has just released a new warning for 1:53am.
Here’s the cyclone track map:
(Supplied: Bureau of Meteorology)
The warning zone remains the same: from Double Island Point in Queensland to Grafton in New South Wales, including Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Byron Bay and Ballina but not including Grafton.
BOM is warning Tropical Cyclone Alfred moving slowly towards the southeast Queensland coast. Rainfall is increasing and wind impacts are expected to increase overnight.
1h agoThu 6 Mar 2025 at 3:55pm
While we wait for the latest 2am update from the Bureau of Meteorology, let’s have a look at the power network.
The provider for the northern NSW region hasn’t provided an update since Thursday afternoon.
Meanwhile, Energex, the electricity supplier for Queensland, is reporting widespread disruption to its power network on the Gold Coast.
More than 20,000 customers were without power as of 1:45am, of which more than 17,500 were on the Gold Coast.
The Energex outage finder says damage from the cyclone is the cause of many of the unplanned outages, affecting large parts of the Gold Coast hinterland, parts of Tweed Heads and Burleigh Waters.
(Supplied: Energex outage finder)
A further 2,000 properties are without power in the Redlands area, on Brisbane’s bayside.
1h agoThu 6 Mar 2025 at 3:52pm
We’re on board to bring you the latest developments as Tropical Cyclone Alfred slowly makes its way to the south-east Queensland and north-eastern New South Wales coasts.
Already the Bureau of Meteorology says parts of the coast are being impacted by damaging winds.
We’ll have the latest warnings from the BOM in a moment.
