Tropical Cyclone May Develop Today Off Australia’s North Coast

March 30 (Bloomberg) -- A tropical cyclone may develop far off Australia’s north coast later today, bringing high seas as it moves west toward Timor, the Bureau of Meteorology said. The low-depression system, which may strengthen into a tropical cyclone in the next 12 to 24 hours, isn’t expected to threaten the north Australian coast during the next three days, the bureau said in a report on its Web site. The storm was about 450 kilometers (280 miles) north-northwest of Darwin at 4 a.m. today, according to a map on the site.

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