Tropical Cyclone Nora intensifies off Australia’s northern coast

While Australia’s been dealing with the year’s strongest storm on one side of the country, another tropical cyclone is ramping things up in the north.

Category 2 Tropical Cyclone Nora continues to intensify toward a Category 3, reports the Bureau of Meteorology, and is moving in a southeasterly path towards the Gulf of Carpentaria.

Officially named on Friday morning, Nora formed off the coast of the Northern Territory around 4 a.m. Since then, it’s picked up intensity, and warning zones have been identified from Elcho Island to Cape Shield, including Nhulunbuy and Pormpuraaw to Thursday Island, including Weipa.  Read more…

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