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Top End residents have been warned to expect days of wild weather as Tropical Cyclone Megan moves towards the coast. The warning zone for the category two system stretches hundreds of kilometres from Alyangula in the Northern Territory’s northeast down the coast to the border with Queensland. It’s expected to become a category three system by Sunday night before it reaches the coast on Monday morning.
The Bureau of Meteorology said the cyclone would have a “very destructive core” when it made landfall, with wind gusts of up to 185km/h expected from the Nathan River in the NT down to Queensland. Severe conditions were expected from early Sunday, with meteorologist Miriam Bradbury warning communities to expect sustained gale-force winds and damaging gusts of up to 100km/h.
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