Northern Australia is bracing for a Category 5 tropical cyclone that is expected to bring “very destructive winds” and “very heavy rain” to its coastline Friday, with meteorologists ...

The eye of the storm crossed the coast east of Port Hedland just after 12 p.m. (11 p.m. ET Thursday) as a category five cyclone, the highest rating on the scale. It then moved south and ...

PORT HEDLAND, Australia – Residents in Western Australia are bracing for Tropical Cyclone Zelia's impacts after the storm rapidly strengthened into a destructive Category 5 storm ahead of its ...

Category 5 Cyclone Zelia swirled toward Australia's minerals-rich western coast Friday, with predicted gusts of up to 290 kilometers per hour sparking emergency warnings and port closures.

Port Hedland is at particular risk from cyclone damage because its buildings are quite older, Klemm said. Category 5 storms have a maximum wind speed of more than 280km/h (174mph), the bureau’s ...

Followed categories will be added to My News. Welcome to a category 5 cyclone, one of the most powerful weapons in Mother Nature’s arsenal. Australia’s eastern coastline, in particular ...

They typically cause widespread destruction, the bureau said. The last Category 5 storm to cross the Australian coast was Cyclone Yasi in 2011. Yasi caused hundreds of millions of dollars in ...

People who've lived through natural disasters, such as floods or cyclones, often re-assess their priorities. But for ...

Cyclone Yasi, a category 5 monster that flattened north Queensland in 2011, caused $800 million in property damage alone, while Cyclone Alfred in 2025 threatened southeast Queensland. So what is a ...