Residents of Australia’s northeast coast begin evacuating low-lying areas ahead of powerful cyclone. Australian Bureau of Meteorology said that the cyclone Debbie was expected to cross the Queensland state coast along a sparsely populated 100-kilometer stretch early Tuesday.
It also said that the cyclone was expected to intensify from a category two storm on Monday to a category four storm with wind gusts of up to 260 kilometers per hour when it crosses on to land from the Pacific Ocean.