On March 5, 2025, in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, @.jenbennett shared a video of massive waves crashing toward the coast. In the video, the author walks near the shore as people observe the towering waves brought by Cyclone Alfred.

Millions of residents along Australia’s eastern coast are bracing for the arrival of a very slow-moving storm, the most southerly tropical cyclone to threaten the region in more than 50 years.

Hundreds of thousands of people in Australia’s Queensland state were without power on Sunday after ex-tropical cyclone Alfred brought damaging winds

Hundreds of thousands of people remain without power in Australia after a cyclone brought wild weather to the east coast. Communities in southeast Queensland and northern New South Wales (NSW) were beginning the clean-up on Sunday after the storm caused widespread flooding and knocked down power lines and trees.