On the other side of the world, a tropical cyclone churning through Australia has made landfall as a Category 4 storm and could make up to two more landfalls as the storm progresses through the weekend.
Tropical Cyclone Narelle made landfall the morning of March 20 as a Category 4 storm, moving over land in Far North Queensland in remote parts of Australia, according to the country's Bureau of Meteorology.
(To clarify, hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones are all the same type of storm, known collectively as tropical cyclones. They have different names depending on what part of the world they form in.)
Since making landfall, the storm brought severe rainfall to the region as it tracked west, most recently located over the Gulf of Carpentaria. It has weakened to a Category 2 tropical cyclone, but is expected to undergo a period of reintensification as it prepares to make landfall again, forecasters said.
Narelle is the strongest tropical cyclone to strike Queensland since 2014, AccuWeather reported.
