{"id":369748,"date":"2025-12-24T22:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/369748\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T22:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:58:08","slug":"tropical-cyclone-grant-expected-to-remain-category-one-system-as-it-passes-cocos-keeling-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/369748\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Cyclone Grant expected to remain category one system as it passes Cocos (Keeling) Islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Tropical Cyclone Grant is expected to remain a category one system as it passes just to the north of a tiny group of islands off the West Australian coast today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.emergency.wa.gov.au\" data-component=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Cyclone Watch and Act advisory is in place<\/a> for the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, with residents urged to remain indoors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Wind gusts of up to 100km\/h are predicted, along with heavy rain and flash flooding.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A map of a cyclone forecast with Cocos Islands located and dots of category 2 systems surrounding it.\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/55ac42a7c8c77671e201c674977b1187\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP FigureCaption_text__zDxQ5 Typography_sizeMobile12__w_FPC Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">The cyclone track map (as at 6pm Wed) shows the cyclone&#8217;s path will pass north of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. (Supplied: Bureau of Meteorology)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">About 600 people live on the islands, more than 2,000 kilometres off the north-west WA coastline, about midway between Australia and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The group consists of 27 islands but only two, West and Home islands, are inhabited.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/emergency\/what-to-do-during-a-cyclone\/102645930\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What to do during a cyclone<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">Cyclones are part of life in northern Australia. Whether you&#8217;re in WA, the NT, the Gulf of Carpentaria or Queensland. Having an emergency plan, preparing your home and having an emergency kit will help you deal with them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The community is no stranger to unpredictable weather at this time of year and a cyclone shelter is available to residents during these kinds of systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Before, during and after a disaster, find the information you need at <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/emergency\/\" data-component=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC Emergency.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tropical Cyclone Grant is expected to remain a category one system as it passes just to the north&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6905,115402,32107,61838,59689,200256,200259,4360,43,55947,44,86,200257,41,39,42,40,147353,200258,18632,45,18631,60316],"class_list":{"0":"post-369748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-abc-news","9":"tag-abc-news-perth","10":"tag-abc-news-wa","11":"tag-bom","12":"tag-cocos-keeling-islands","13":"tag-cocos-island-cyclone","14":"tag-cyclone-updates","15":"tag-extreme-weather","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-indian-ocean","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-perth-news","20":"tag-tc-grant","21":"tag-top-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topnews","24":"tag-topstories","25":"tag-tropical-cyclone","26":"tag-tropical-cyclone-grant","27":"tag-wa-cyclone","28":"tag-wa-news","29":"tag-wa-weather","30":"tag-weather-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}