Cyclone Narelle (2026)

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Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle was a powerful, unusual and long-lived tropical cyclone that made multiple landfalls in Australia, specifically in the Kimberley region, Far North Queensland, and the Top End, in March 2026. The twenty-first tropical low, tenth tropical cyclone, and sixth severe tropical cyclone of the 2025–26 Australian region cyclone season, Narelle formed from a tropical disturbance south of the Solomon Islands on 15 March. During its formative stages, the cyclone was designated as Tropical Low 34U by the Bureau of Meteorology, and initially moved to the east, before heading southwards and away from the country. Around this time, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) also upgraded the system to a tropical cyclone, designating it as 27P. Shortly thereafter, the system intensified to a Category 1 tropical cyclone on the Australian scale, and was assigned the name Narelle by the BoM. Narelle saw rapid development over the following days, intensifying into a Category 5 severe...

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