Cyclone Jasper Tracks Toward Coast as Station Evacuated

Cyclone Niran could intensify over the following two days. Ian Hitchcock/Getty Images

A rescue helicopter is set to evacuate a remote weather station as a tropical cyclone looms off the Queensland coast.

Four scientists will be picked up on Dec. 9 from Willis Island, about 450 km off Cairns in the Coral Sea, ahead of Tropical Cyclone Jasper’s expected arrival.