Surfers and spectators made the most of conditions whipped up by Tropical Cyclone Alfred over the weekend with a steady stream of cars and bikes making their way to Main Beach and the national park to enjoy the uncommonly seen waves for which Noosa is known.
Swimmers enjoyed the surf at Main Beach, beach walkways were packed with onlookers and surfers walking back to national park to ride their next wave in, traffic was backed over Noosa Hill and Hastings Street was very busy.
Now at category 2 Tropical Cyclone Alfred continues to deliver a “large and powerful to potentially damaging easterly swell” and “abnormally high tides” to the eastern beaches, according to the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM).
In their 4am report on Monday morning the BOM placed the cyclone about 410km east northeast of Maroochydore and continuing in a southeastwards direction away from the coast.
It predicted the cyclone to slow down and turn westward from Tuesday, moving back towards the southern Queensland coast.
The bureau forecasts heavy to locally intense rainfall for southeast Queensland and northeastern New South Wales from Wednesday as Alfred approaches the coast and flood watches have been issued for these areas.
Eastern beaches have been closed along Noosa due to dangerous conditions.
