Emergency services say Cyclone Debbie could bring damaging winds of up to 200km/h, and cause structural damage, flooding, power outages, destroy caravans and rip boats from their moorings. Meteorologists have been monitoring a low pressure system in the Coral Sea in recent days, which developed into a category one cyclone on Saturday morning. The slower the cyclone moves over the warm waters of the Coral Sea, the more severe it will become. The bureau’s Queensland regional director, Bruce Gunn, said he could not rule out the possibility of a category five cyclone, the most severe rating possible. “If the cyclone was to speed up, it could [cause] impacts on the coast as early as Sunday night.

Source: The Guardian March 25, 2017 01:29 UTC