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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Petra Stock

A ‘vigorous’ coastal low is hitting Australia’s east coast. What does it mean, how worried should we be and is it a bomb cyclone?

BoM radar image showing the low-pressure system off NSW at 8.20am AEST. The Bureau of Meteorology is calling it a ‘vigorous coastal low’, not an east coast low or a bomb cyclone.
BoM radar image showing the low-pressure system off NSW at 8.20am AEST. The Bureau of Meteorology is calling it a ‘vigorous coastal low’, not an east coast low or a bomb cyclone. Photograph: Bureau of Meteorology

A “vigorous coastal low” has formed off Australia’s east coast, the Bureau of Meteorology says, bringing potentially damaging winds, hazardous surf and persistent rainfall and flooding across much of the New South Wales coastline.

Millions of residents are in the path of a severe low-pressure system intensifying off NSW’s north coast, tracking towards regions still recovering from deadly floods.

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