Tropical Cyclone Blanche Prompts Alerts in Northern Australia
A couple walk through the rain along West Esplanade past an empty seat overlooking Sydney Harbour in the suburb of Manly on the city's North Shore Wednesday, May 14, 2003.
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Tropical Cyclone Blanche formed off Australia’s north coast near Darwin Sunday, with winds gusting to 95 kilometers (60 miles) an hour and forecast to intensify.
Authorities suspended public transport in Darwin and warned people in the city and other parts of the Northern Territory to take shelter from the Category 1 storm. The cyclone is moving southwest at 12 kilometers an hour and is forecast to cross the north Kimberley coast later on Monday as a Category 2 system, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.