Tropical Cyclone Narelle: Historic Triple Threat

0:00It's March 26. This is Sydney News today, AI-powered stories from your city. I'm Cory with the story. Tropical Cyclone Narell is making history by crossing into a third Australian region, the first time that's happened in more than 20 years. It started as a category 4 system hitting Queensland last Friday, then weakened to category 3 when it struck the Northern Territory by Sunday. Now its rebuilding strength in the Indian Ocean of Western Australia, expected to reach category 4 by Thursday afternoon before slamming ashore. Late Friday between Carnarvon and Calvary as a category 3 with gusts up to 224 kilometers per hour. Earlier this week, Narell crossed Northern Western Australia as a mere tropical low on Monday, but it's packing more punch on this second approach. The last cyclone to hit Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia, was angry back in 2005. Meanwhile, residents in the Pillbar region from Pardu Roadhouse to Coral Bay are batting

1:02down with schools closed, tree secured, and sandbags, ready in places like Caratha and X-Mouth. Tours in X-Muth, a town of about 3,000 still scarred from category 5 cyclone vans in 1999, have been urged to evacuate ahead of gusts up to 200 kilometers per hour. In the Northern Territory, Narell's heavy rains linger with major flood warnings along the Catherine and Daily Rivers. Catherine faces a second major flood in a month, with the rivers set to crest just above 17.5 meters at the town bridge on Thursday, prompting emergency shelters and a field hospital. After landfall, Narell should track southeast as a tropical low east of Perth on Saturday, delivering showers and storms before finally exiting into. The 7th Ocean early Sunday.