{"id":181573,"date":"2025-03-03T11:03:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T01:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=181573"},"modified":"2025-03-03T11:03:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T01:03:03","slug":"tropical-cyclone-alfred-forecast-to-turn-towards-southern-queensland-coast-from-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=181573","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Cyclone Alfred forecast to turn towards southern Queensland coast from Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tropical Cyclone Alfred is expected to make landfall this week, with authorities warning it could impact heavily populated areas across hundreds of kilometres of coastline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bureau of Meteorology is warning the category two system could cross the coast between Bundaberg and northern NSW on Thursday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cyclone is currently about 465 kilometres north-east of Brisbane and tracking south-east at 13 kilometres per hour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is forecast to continue moving south-east on Monday, before turning west and tracking back towards the southern Queensland coast on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Premier David Crisafulli said the system could impact a &#8220;large geographical area&#8221;, bringing severe wind warnings, erosion and flooding right across the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re talking about an area everywhere from Bundaberg to south of the border,&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>he said.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\" id=\"105001626\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2dfdc7d3e667b8c1206087f97381d5d2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2dfdc7d3e667b8c1206087f97381d5d2.jpeg 640w, https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2dfdc7d3e667b8c1206087f97381d5d2-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The cyclone is currently about 465 kilometres north-east of Brisbane and tracking south-east at 13 kilometres per hour.&nbsp;(Supplied: Bureau of Meteorology)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The last tropical cyclone to cross the coast in south-east Queensland was ex-Tropical Cyclone Zoe in 1974.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cyclone is expected to impact rail services on the coast between Brisbane and Gladstone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cyclone is currently about 465 kilometres north-east of Brisbane and tracking south-east at 13 kilometres per hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":68677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,47,177],"tags":[987,15580,5026,7465],"class_list":["post-181573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-queensland-rail","category-rail-news","category-transport-for-nsw","tag-brisbane","tag-cyclone-alfred","tag-nsw","tag-queensland"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181575,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181573\/revisions\/181575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}