Tropical Cyclone Narelle: Devastating Winds & Floods

0:00Tropical Cyclone Narell is barreling toward Western Australia's coast as a powerful category 4 system expected to weaken to category 3 before. Making landfall Friday afternoon between Carnarven and Calbury, the storm packs wine gusts up to 250 kilometers per hour, and it's already the first cyclone in over 20 years to hit 3. Australian states and territories. After this week, Narell slammed far north Queensland as a top-end category 4, then crossed into the Northern Territory as category 3 before, swinging west into the Indian Ocean. Officials at the Bureau of Meteorology are warning of very destructive winds along the northwest coast through Friday morning, with a flood watch now, stretching from Exmoff all the way to Perth's Swan River as heavy rain moves in. The system should track east of Perth by Saturday afternoon, likely as a tropical low, dumping between 50 and 100 millimeters of rain over. The southwest through the weekend, and sparking possible flash flooding in the metro area,

1:04Narell will head out to the southern ocean overnight, Saturday, but clean up and flooding risks could linger into next week with scientists linking. It's rapid growth to unusually warm ocean temperatures. This has been Sydney News Today, powered by AI.