As it has become known Brisbane and surrounding areas will experience an impact from Tropical Cyclone Alfred during this week. According to the currents forecasts and modelling at the present time as of 10 pm on Monday 3 March 2025 it is suggested to make landfall somewhere between the southern Sunshine Coast and Brisbane late on Thursday 6 March 2025 or early on Friday 7 March 2025 as either a category 1 or 2 system. There is still uncertainties in the track, intensity and speed of movement that dictate the precise effects from the system, which should improve as it gets closer. However damaging or destructive winds, heavy and locally intense rainfall with flooding and dangerous coastal conditions are expected well ahead, with and behind the system.
Please keep updated with official information from the Bureau of Meteorology and make preparations well ahead of the onset of the severe weather according to advice from the authorities.
Ferny Grove Weather will remain operational as long as possible during the event and this includes our real-time updates. Possible power interruptions may disrupt these updates and the data on the website may not update in a timely manner. Without power and/or telecommunication systems working our data will still be logged. When these services are restored the data will be fed back into our reporting system to be available again on the website once again.
There is a chance that our monitoring equipment will be damaged during the event which may cause an outage of some of our weather data. In that case the utmost effort will be made to get our weather station back up and running again as soon as possible but in this case it may take some time to conduct repairs.
Ferny Grove Weather will be here to provide real time data as much as it possible during this events. Please take the necessary precautions and stay safe everyone.