Heartbreaking photos show cyclone Narelle’s devastating impact, with some WA communities submerged in floodwaters.
Ibanez Taylor
LIVE UPDATES: Severe tropical cyclone Narelle is continuing its track along the WA coastline, with the monster storm reportedly causing widespread damage to regional towns.
Tegwen Bescoby
Roofs have been blown off and trees are being torn from the ground as cyclone Narelle makes landfall on the WA coastline near Exmouth.
Brooke Rolfe
Heavy rain and strong winds have wreaked havoc in multiple states with more than 400 emergency calls placed in one region.
Tom Wark and Farid Farid
Communities in the firing line of a powerful tropical cyclone are on edge amid memories of past storms that have devastated the region.
Aaron Bunch
The AFL has declared Saturday’s Fremantle fixture won’t be shifted, with fans warned to brace for a potential thunderstorm and up to 50mm of heavy rain.
Samantha Rogers and Glen Quartermain
Experts warn that Perth could beat a weather record from nearly a century ago as residents in the metro area are urged to prepare now for tropical cyclone Narelle’s impacts.
RECAP: Cyclone Narelle has strengthened to a scary category 4 system as it lashes WA’s north, with emergency personnel on standby for the worst.
Amy Cavender and Troy de Ruyter
Widespread warnings are in place for Cyclone Narelle which strengthened overnight into a Category 3 system as it continues steamrolling south parallel to the northwest coast.
Port Hedland International Airport has cancelled all Qantas and Virgin flights as severe tropical cyclone Narelle barrels down the State’s north-west.
Katherine Kraayvanger
Fears Cyclone Narelle could impact Saturday’s AFL game between Fremantle and Richmond in Perth are growing as the system makes its way down the WA coast.
Josh Kempton
Perth is on alert with weather experts unable to say if the city will be safe from the path of Cyclone Narelle.
Cyclone Narelle is redeveloping back into a tropical cyclone this morning off the far north Kimberly coast and is expected to intensify over waters north of the Pilbara today and tomorrow.
Millions of Aussies are bracing for temperatures to plummet up to 12C below average in the “first real cold snap” of the year.
Euan Kennedy
Perth is now on alert as a tropical system tracks towards WA’s north, with forecasters warning it will likely re-intensify into a severe cyclone later this week.
Just when they thought it was safe to forget about the water, residents of a sandbagged outback town are bracing for a second round of flooding.
Lloyd Jones
A severe weather warning has been issued for parts of WA’s coast as ex-tropical cyclone Narelle descends on the west, with heavy rainfall, flash flooding, and damaging winds expected.
Perth’s golden stretch of sunshine is set to be smashed by a wet, uncertain finish, while WA’s north has been issued with a flood warning as rain tumbles down.
Troy de Ruyter
Top End locals are wary of another flood threat after a former cyclone swept past, causing less damage than first expected as it speeds toward another state.
Lloyd Jones and Robyn Wuth
Weather authorities have delivered devastating news in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Narelle crossing the coast, after thousands in Queensland were left without power.
Rhiannon Lewin, Jack Nivison
Tropical Cyclone Narelle is barrelling toward northern Australia and could impact the coast as a category five system, inflicting winds up to more than 250km/h.
Robyn Wuth, Lloyd Jones and Laine Clark
Anthony Albanese is urgently gathering state and territory leaders as Australians weather record-high fuel prices.
Joseph Olbrycht-Palmer
One Sydney suburb copped an absolute battering overnight, as a severe thunderstorm dropped 93mm of rain in just an hour.
Abisha Sapkota
Australia has experienced dramatic climate “whiplash” this summer, with the same regions scorched by catastrophic fires then devastated by record floods within weeks.
Blair Jackson
