Category-five system is expected to bring extremely damaging and destructive winds, Bureau of Meteorology warns
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The “extremely damaging” category five Tropical Cyclone Zelia has intensified its speed towards the Western Australian coastline, with the weather bureau warning it may bring 290km/h winds and that it is now too late to leave.
The system expanded over Thursday night, with the cyclone stretching to Wallal Downs along the coast, and inland through to Tom Price and Newman.
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