In scientific terms, a tropical cyclone is the sum of three parts — a rain band, eye and eyeball — which draw air in toward the centre in a clockwise pattern, and out the top in the opposite direction ...

Cyclone Alfred is the first tropical cyclone so far south off the Queensland’s coast since Gough Whitlam was prime minister. Schools have been shut, public transport parked and two AFL matches punted.

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

Tropical Cyclone Alfred is forecast to make landfall somewhere between the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast on Thursday.

Cyclones are not all made equal and the 300km system off the Queensland coast is shaping up to be a monster. In scientific terms, a tropical cyclone is the sum of three parts — a rain band, eye ...

In scientific terms, a tropical cyclone is the sum of three parts — a rain band, eye and eyewall — which draw air in toward the centre in a clockwise pattern, and out the top in the opposite ...