March 9 (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people in Australia's Queensland state were without power on Sunday after Alfred, a downgraded tropical cyclone, brought damaging winds and heavy rains ...

Hurricanes are among the strongest storms on earth. Fueled by warm tropical waters, they can bring devastating winds and storm surge to coastal areas, and torrential rain well inland. Hurricanes ...

A slow-moving tropical storm has crossed Australia’s heavily populated eastern coast, lashing the region with damaging winds and heavy rain that’s forecast to fall for days to come.

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.

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred spent 17 days over the northern Coral Sea, gathering steam. Loading... Moist and slow-moving conditions built the weather system into a category four storm at its peak ...