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Nervous wait for brewing tropical cyclone Errol

Rain and strong winds are expected to lash parts of northwest WA as a cyclone forms off the coast. (HANDOUT/TRACEY HEIMBERGER)

A cyclone is likely to form off northern Western Australia, with residents battening down the hatches.

A tropical low in the Timor Sea, about 400 kilometres from Darwin, was making its way southwest at 15 km/h and would probably intensify into a cyclone later on Saturday, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.

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