Millions of residents along Australia’s eastern coast are bracing for the arrival of a very slow-moving storm, the strongest tropical cyclone to threaten the region in more than 50 years.

The Bureau of Meteorology said there was a 'very unusual' amount of cyclone activity in Western Australia, Queensland and the ...

Australia is bracing for severe flooding as Cyclone Alfred nears, with the rare storm on the country's eastern coast expected to bring torrential rain, destructive winds, and storm surges.

The Pacific region near Australia recorded its hottest year in 2024, marked by extreme heat, devastating cyclones, and the ...

Tropical Cyclone Alfred is approaching Australia’s east coast and could hit land in about a day. Ahead of the expected impact on one of the continent’s most populated and well-known stretches ...

A tropical cyclone weakened to a tropical low weather system on Saturday as it approached Brisbane, Australia’s third-most populous city, bringing flooding rain to the coastal region.

Australia ranks its tropical cyclones differently than how the U.S. measures hurricane intensity. For example, in Australia, the mean wind speed is defined over a period of 10 minutes, whereas the ...

Hurricanes and their ilk can strike year-round, as the residents of Brisbane, Australia, are discovering this week. Alfred ‒ called a cyclone, not a hurricane in that part of the world ‒ is ...