Hurricanes Kirk and Leslie were out in the open Atlantic early in the month while Tropical Storm Milton was in the Gulf. Milton would go on to rapidly intensify into a deadly Category 5 hurricane.

ABC weather presenter Tom Saunders takes a look at where Tropical Cyclone Alfred is now, and how the weather will evolve over the coming days. Photo shows New Year's Weather: Dark grey storm ...

Now a tropical storm, winds are set to reach up to 85km/h, less strong than first forecast. On Saturday morning, senior meteorologist Miriam Bradbury, from the Bureau of Meteorology, warned of the ...

adding that it was "crucially important" the public did not "dismiss" the storm. "It really doesn't matter to us whether it's been downgraded from a tropical cyclone to a weather event," he said.