Gales Possible For North Queensland Coast as Cyclone Niran Intensifies

Gales Possible For North Queensland Coast as Cyclone Niran Intensifies
Cyclone Niran could intensify over the following two days. Ian Hitchcock/Getty Images
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Tropical Cyclone Niran is continuing to intensify, creating the possibility of gale-force winds along the exposed coast of Queensland with the  Bureau of Meteorology, Queensland updating its advice to a Cyclone warning for areas between Innisfail to Cape Melville, covering Cooktown, Port Douglas, and Cairns.
Another severe thunderstorm warning has also been issued for Cape York Peninsula for “heavy rainfall and damaging winds.”