The ocean and storm clouds in the distance. The bureau has forecast gale-force winds and rough seas from Wednesday. (ABC News).
Meteorologist Livio Regano said it was hard to know more about the situation until "we see the whites of the eyes" of the storm mid-week, but he expects the weather around the state to be relatively normal for February. The bureau said the likelihood of the system becoming a tropical cyclone is low on Tuesday, moderate on Wednesday and high on Thursday when it is expected to track south east, away from the coast. A low-pressure system developing near Vanuatu is expected to "rapidly intensify" into a tropical cyclone mid-week as it moves towards the Queensland coast, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has warned.
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Based on this, a direct impact or landfall is not expected at this stage.” The system will then rapidly intensify into a tropical cyclone as it moves west and it could intensify into a severe cyclone by Wednesday night or the early hours of Thursday. The Bureau of Meteorology says a tropical low forming near Vanuatu is expected to move west over the Coral Sea on Monday and Tuesday towards the North Queensland city of Mackay.
'It will make a 90-degree turn, down the Queensland coast, toward the southeast.'
“The low is expected to rapidly intensify to a tropical cyclone as it continues to move west on Wednesday,” the Bureau of Meteorology said in a note published late on Sunday. “We’ll see that system approach the Townsville and Mackay coasts on Thursday, and that’s when we’ll start to see those winds pick up,” said How. [Queensland](https://7news.com.au/news/qld)’s first [cyclone](https://7news.com.au/weather/severe-weather) of the season could soon form, with a low in the Coral Sea expected to “rapidly intensify” in the coming days.
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The system is also expected to bring large swells to parts of the Queensland coast. The cyclone is expected to remain off the coast before turning towards the south on Thursday. The first tropical cyclone of the season is expected to creep towards the Queensland coast this week.
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How said the potential cyclone was expected to remain far enough offshore that no rain is expected. BoM meteorologist Jonathan How said the system was expected to approach Townsville and Mackay before pulling a "90-degree turn" and heading southward off the coast on Friday and Saturday. A low pressure system tracking from the Solomon Islands is expected to move towards Queensland and could become a tropical cyclone as early as Wednesday.
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A tropical low forming near Vanuatu is expected to move west towards Mackay, but is not currently forecast to make landfall.
Based on this, a direct impact or landfall is not expected at this stage.” “There is considerable risk that the system could be close to the east coast of Queensland, off Mackay by Thursday,” the bureau said in an alert on Sunday night. A tropical cyclone – likely to be named Freddy – could form off the coast of north
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