Forecasters had predicted Tropical Cyclone Alfred would be the ... Image: Australia's Bureau of Meteorology has estimated the track of the storm Nearly 40 people rescued from flood waters In ...

For almost two weeks, Tropical Cyclone Alfred has ambled ... overland to the south-east as a destructive low storm. This ...

The tropical cyclone had sustained wind speeds of 52 miles per hour. Flash flooding can occur well inland and away from the storm’s center. Even weaker storms can produce excessive rainfall that ...

Image: The Australian Bureau of Meteorology Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre's forecast track map The forecaster had predicted that the storm would weaken as it approached Brisbane, saying ...

A slow-moving tropical storm has crossed Australia’s heavily populated eastern coast, lashing the region with damaging winds and heavy rain that’s forecast to fall for days to come.

adding that it was "crucially important" the public did not "dismiss" the storm. "It really doesn't matter to us whether it's been downgraded from a tropical cyclone to a weather event," he said.