Cyclone Threat Hangs Over Rain-Soaked North Queensland

It is likely to approach the Queensland coast as a severe cyclone into Thursday but there is still some uncertainty about where it will make landfall.

A family watch the storm roll in across the Coral Sea at Holloways Beach as Cyclone Jasper approaches landfall in Cairns in far north Queensland on Dec. 13, 2023. BRIAN CASSEY/AFP via Getty Images

Queenslanders are bracing for a potential category 3 cyclone forecast to cross the coast just weeks after wild weather lashed the region.

The Bureau of Meteorology says a tropical low in the Coral Sea is expected to develop into a cyclone, which will be named Kirrily, late on Monday.