Rolling Updates: North Queensland Braces for Tropical Cyclone Kimi

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk speaks at a press conference in Brisbane, Australia on Jan. 11, 2021. Jono Searle/Getty Images

Update (4.42 p.m.)

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) issued updated advice at 4.34 p.m. for Tropical Cyclone Kimi, now a category 2 system.

The cyclone is now 165 kilometres north of Townsville in North Queensland and moving south-southeast at 14 km/hr.