{"id":24470,"date":"2025-03-06T21:49:44","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T21:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/australias-east-coast-braces-for-cyclone-alfred\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T21:49:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T21:49:44","slug":"australias-east-coast-braces-for-cyclone-alfred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/australias-east-coast-braces-for-cyclone-alfred\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s east coast braces for Cyclone Alfred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Cyclone Alfred is set to bring damaging winds and heavy rain to Australia&#8217;s central east coast when it makes landfall as a category 2 storm later this week. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">It&#8217;s the first cyclone to hit the region in since Cyclone Zoe in 1974. Tropical storms are not uncommon in Australia, but typically make landfall further north. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">The BBC&#8217;s Katy Watson spoke to residents on the Gold Coast as they prepared for its impact. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\"><i id=\"video-by-kellie-highet-and-dan-soekov\" class=\"sc-7dcfb11b-0 kKcaog\">Video by Kellie Highet and Dan Soekov<!-- --><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cly463rl3e6o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclone Alfred is set to bring damaging winds and heavy rain to Australia&#8217;s central east coast when it makes landfall as a category 2 storm later this week. It&#8217;s the first cyclone to hit the region in since Cyclone Zoe in 1974. Tropical storms are not uncommon in Australia, but typically make landfall further north. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[8928,1439,7813,3563,8927,140],"class_list":["post-24470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","tag-alfred","tag-australias","tag-braces","tag-coast","tag-cyclone","tag-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24472,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24470\/revisions\/24472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}