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People watch as huge swells hit the beaches on the Gold Coast, Australia, Thursday, March 6, 2025. (Jason O'Brien/AAP Image via AP)

Schools are closed and public transport has stopped as rare cyclone approaches Australian coast

By John Pye and Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

This satellite image taken by Himawari-8, a Japanese weather satellite, and provided by National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, shows cyclone Ilsa approaching Australia's west coast, Thursday, April 13, 2023. A severe tropical cyclone lashed the northwest Australian coast with strengthening winds and increasing rain Thursday as authorities warned the population to prepare for destructive gusts of up to 275 kph (171 mph). (Courtesy of National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) via AP)

Australia’s most powerful cyclone in 12 years to cross coast

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019, photo, a swimmer jumps from the Port Noarlunga Jetty in an effort to cool off in Adelaide, Australia. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology said the average temperature across the country of 40.9 degrees Celsius (105 Fahrenheit) Tuesday beat the record of 40.3 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) from Jan. 7, 2013. (David Mariuz/AAP Image via AP)

It’s sizzling: Australia experiences hottest day on record

Associated Press

In this Jan. 24, 2019, photo, a beachgoer jumps off a jetty at Glenelg Beach in Adelaide, Australia, as temperatures climb to 45 Celsius (113 ‎Fahrenheit). Australia has sweltered through its hottest month on record in January and the summer of extremes continues with wildfires razing the drought-parched south while expanses of the tropical north are flooded. (Kelly Barnes/AAP Image via AP)

January was officially Australia’s hottest month on record

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press