The Northern Territory has now been placed on alert to beware the impact of a fast strengthening Tropical Cyclone Trevor.
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Some weather models are even predicting the building cyclone, by then likely a tropical depression, will cross somewhere south of Katherine early next week.
Officially, the Bureau of Meteorology says they cannot predict with any certainty where TC Trevor is headed.
What they do know is that Trevor is turning nasty.
TC Trevor has reached category 3 strength, with wind gusts to 205kmh, in the northern Coral Sea.
TC Trevor is expected to continue intensifying, and may reach category 4 strength, before making landfall on the eastern side of Cape York Peninsula this afternoon or evening.
TC Trevor will have significant impacts on Cape York Peninsula with very destructive winds, storm tide, abnormally high tides and heavy rainfall all expected.
TC Trevor is then expected to cross Cape York Peninsula and emerge in the Gulf of Carpentaria during tomorrow.
TC Trevor may weaken as it crosses Cape York Peninsula.
"However, due to the strength of TC Trevor and favourable environmental conditions, the system is expected to reintensify quickly once it moves over the warm waters of the Gulf of Carpentaria," a bureau spokesman said.
"There is high confidence that TC Trevor will reach Severe Tropical Cyclone Strength in the Gulf.
"NT residents right around the Gulf need to take this seriously and be prepared.
"Whilst it's too early to say exactly where TC Trevor will cross the coast, residents between Nhulunbuy and the NT/Qld border, including Groote Eylandt need to stay on high alert."
The Bureau said TC Trevor is expected to be a relatively large system with impacts felt well away from the centre of the system.
Coastal wind warnings are likely for NT waters from Wednesday or Thursday.
Dangerous marine conditions will develop throughout the entire Gulf during the week as TC Trevor develops.
Currently located just off the Queensland coast, the cyclone will continue moving in a west-southwest direction and is expected to cross the coast south of Lockhart River tonight.
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Chris McLennan
ACM national rural property writer based in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. Career journalist. Multi award winner.
ACM national rural property writer based in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. Career journalist. Multi award winner.
