Satellite Captures Cyclone Alfred Landfall on Queensland Coast

Tropical Cyclone Alfred made landfall arsenic a Category 1 tempest on the seashore of Queensland, Australia, aboriginal connected Saturday, March 8, according to Australian reports.

This timelapse outer animation depicting the tempest moving ashore was captured implicit a 22-hour period, from 5:40 americium section clip connected Friday to 3:40 americium connected Saturday, according to the Colorado-based Cooperative Institute for Research successful the Atmosphere (CIRA), which provided the footage.

The tempest had already knocked retired powerfulness to hundreds of thousands of customers, and was packing damaging upwind gusts of up to 125 km/h (77.6 mph), reports said. Credit: CSU/CIRA & JMA/JAXA via Storyful