The cyclone is expected to make landfall in Far North Queensland on Friday, March 20, before tracking westward toward the eastern Northern Territory over the weekend.

The Bureau of Meteorology is set to issue a cyclone watch alert for parts of the Northern Territory from tomorrow, as residents attempting to clean up after devastating floods brace for more rain.

Nightcliff High School will be transformed into a temporary evacuation staging centre for hundreds of remote residents removed from the community today as Category 5 Cyclone Narelle bears down.

Cyclone Narelle, one of the most powerful storms in Australia for years, is churning towards the Northern Territory after making landfall in Queensland as a category four. The weather system, currently a category two,

Parts of the Northern Territory have been issued a cyclone watch with Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle expected to make landfall on Groote Eylandt from Saturday as a category three system.

Tropical Cyclone Narelle is currently a very dangerous Category 5 storm, sitting off the Far North Queensland Coast some 350 kilometres northeast of Cooktown. Formed in the Coral Sea, Narelle is packing a punch,

Tropical Cyclone Narelle crossed the coast at Queensland's Cape York Peninsula as a dangerous category four system about 7am on Friday, producing wind gusts of more than 250km/h. Residents bunkered down as the monster storm hit the far north coast, causing widespread power outages and flooding.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Powerful wind gusts and record rainfall hit Darwin, Australia, this weekend. The storm tore up trees, and left almost 20,000 residents without power. Locals captured this eyewitness ...

Dozens of parks, reserves and sporting grounds across the Greater Darwin Region have been closed due to “recent wet weather,” as the council’s cyclone clean up nears its third-month.