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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Graham Readfearn Environment and climate correspondent

Tropical Cyclone Narelle forecast to pummel remote WA towns with wind gusts of up to 275km/h

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A tracker map showing Tropical Cyclone Narelle off the remote north-west Western Australia coast at 1am AEDT. Illustration: Bureau of Meteorology

Tropical Cyclone Narelle – a severe storm that has pummelled communities across thousands of kilometres in Australia’s north – intensified on Thursday night with several remote towns directly in its destructive path.

The cyclone, which was a category four system in the early hours of Friday morning, formed over the Coral Sea off Australia’s far north Queensland coast 10 days ago bringing torrential rain, flooding and destructive winds as it barrelled over the continent’s far north.

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