{"id":376973,"date":"2025-12-28T23:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T23:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/376973\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T23:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T23:10:13","slug":"cyclone-hayley-forms-off-wa-coast-and-broome-residents-told-to-prepare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/376973\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Hayley forms off WA coast and Broome residents told to prepare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Residents in the West Australian tourist town of Broome are being asked to prepare after a tropical cyclone formed off the state’s north coast overnight.<\/p>\n

Tropical Cyclone Hayley is about 535 kilometres north-west of Broome and is a category one system.<\/p>\n

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has established a watch zone from Broome to Cockatoo Island, which includes the town of Derby.<\/p>\n

Current projections show Cyclone Hayley will intensify to a category two system by Monday afternoon and start to affect the Kimberley coast by Wednesday or Thursday.<\/p>\n

It currently has wind gusts of up to 120km\/h and is tracking in a southern direction.<\/p>\n

BOM senior forecaster Luke Huntington said the system might weaken before it crossed the coast.<\/p>\n

“It just depends what strength the system is while it is offshore,” he said.<\/p>\n

“A stronger system is going to take a longer time to weaken. If it is a weaker system, it’s going to weaken more rapidly.”<\/p>\n

Preparations underway<\/p>\n

Djarindjin Aboriginal Corporation chief executive Nathan McIvor, who manages the remote community on the Dampier Peninsula north of Broome, said preparations had been made.<\/p>\n

“You always find there’s been something that you’ve missed but we’re as prepared as we possibly can be,” he said.<\/p>\n

Mr McIvor said loose items had been cleared ahead of the summer months, while water and dry goods had been stocked up.<\/p>\n

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Nathan McIvor says the community is well prepared for the cyclone. \u00a0 (ABC Kimberley: Andrew Seabourne)<\/p>\n

He said the Dampier Peninsula had not historically been badly affected by cyclones.<\/p>\n

“Normally, there’s an umbrella hanging over the Dampier Peninsula. We don’t get much,” Mr McIvor said.<\/p>\n

“I guess the climate is changing a little and we’re seeing more heading in our direction. Maybe the umbrella is starting to break down.”<\/p>\n

Mr McIvor said there were plans in place to keep the community safe.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got vehicles and buses. We can evacuate our residents if needs be,” he said.<\/p>\n

“If we’re doing everything we can to make sure everyone is safe, that’s the best thing for us.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents in the West Australian tourist town of Broome are being asked to prepare after a tropical cyclone…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,24513,145729,203210,22561,44,203211,25962,1192],"class_list":["post-376973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-broome","tag-cyclone","tag-cyclone-hayley","tag-kimberley","tag-news","tag-tropical-low","tag-wa","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376973","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=376973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}