(Express) – Cyclone Trevor has sparked mass evacuations in Australia’s Northern Territory ahead of hitting as a category 4 cyclone – but where are the evacuations and where is Trevor right now? Cyclone Trevor smashed Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland, Australia, after making landfall as a Category 3 storm on Tuesday. Local residents in the aboriginal community of Lockhart River were placed on lockdown as the large storm uprooted trees and caused torrential downpours. Cyclone Trevor is

expected to rapidly re-intensify as it moves over the Gulf of Carpentaria towards the Northern Territory after dropping to Category 1 level. Worried officials are now planning mass evacuations ahead of the storm arriving as a “severe” category 4 cyclone with up to 173mph (279 km/h) wind gusts. In the latest Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) update at 6 am GMT (4 pm AEST), the weather agency warned: “Tropical cyclone Trevor will intensify further as it adopts a more general west-southwest movement across the Gulf of Carpentaria. READ MORE


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