Tropical Cyclone Maila Weakens, Eyeing Australia

0:00It's April 10th. This is Sydney News today, local news powered by AI. Tropical Cyclone Myla has dropped to Category 1 and keeps weakening as it creeps toward Australia's coast early next week. It's slow moving right now, sitting about 630 km west northwest of Honiara and 1810 km east of Port. More is being in the Solomon Sea. Forecasters say it might slip into the Coral Sea and head for far north Queensland, north of Cooktown, but it'll probably lose Cyclone's strength before, hitting land. Another chance is it fizzles out over the Solomon Sea or southeast Papua New Guinea this weekend without making it across. The storm did a loop in the Solomon Sea, which sapped its power. But yesterday, those 200 km per hour winds wrecked villages in the most old, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Bugenville. Even weakened, it could still bring damaging gusts and heavy rain to northern Queensland from Tuesday, meanwhile, heat's been brutal. George hit a record 36.9 degrees Celsius yesterday, with eastern and central spots staying 10 degrees

1:05above average through the weekend. Brisbane tops out at 33 degrees Saturday, goal coast at 30, sunshine coast at 31, but cooler airs coming soon, plus a possible. Has it surf warning on southern Queensland coast from another system heading to New Zealand? Those might issue a flood watch up north, with up to 100 km of rain and river rises. So yeah, keep watching this one closely.