{"id":578780,"date":"2026-04-01T15:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578780\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:23:09","slug":"severe-tropical-cyclone-narelles-journey-across-northern-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/578780\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe Tropical Cyclone Narelle&#8217;s journey across northern Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis video has no spoken audio but contains the following text.<\/p>\n<p>Tropical Cyclone Narelle formed as a category 1 system on Tuesday 17 March. <\/p>\n<p>Narelle became a severe category 5 tropical cyclone on Thursday 19 March. <\/p>\n<p>Narelle reached the north Queensland coast on Friday 20 March as a powerful category 4 system. <\/p>\n<p>Narelle reformed in the Gulf of Carpentaria before reaching the Northern Territory as a category 3 early in the morning on Sunday 22 March. <\/p>\n<p>After crossing northern Australia as a Tropical Low, Narelle strengthened back into a cyclone over the Indian Ocean on Wednesday 25 March. <\/p>\n<p>Narelle then quickly intensified back to a category 4 system by Thursday 26 March.<\/p>\n<p>Narelle made landfall in the north-west on Friday as a severe category 4 tropical cyclone. <\/p>\n<p>Narelle left the country to the south late on Saturday, over 8 days after arriving in Queensland.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This video has no spoken audio but contains the following text. Tropical Cyclone Narelle formed as a category&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,61838,6884,43,44,205097,15157,283840,155,41,39,42,40,147353,1192,10650],"class_list":["post-578780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-bom","tag-bureau-of-meteorology","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-news-and-media","tag-rain","tag-record-breaking-weather","tag-story","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-tropical-cyclone","tag-weather","tag-wind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578780","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=578780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}