Tropical Cyclone Alfred is expected to cross the south-east Queensland coast later this week, bringing significant wind, rain and coastal impacts.

The weather system is expected to hit the coastline on Thursday evening as a category two system with damaging winds and heavy rainfall.

Tropical Cyclone Alfred has been upgraded from a cyclone watch to a cyclone warning after it was intensified to a Category 2 overnight. The warning zone extends from Double Island Point in Queensland down to Yamba in New South Wales — including densely populated areas including Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Byron Bay and Ballina.

Tropical Cyclone Alfred is expected to hit Australia’s east coast later this week. Here's where it is likely to strike.

Millions of residents along Australia’s east coast are on high alert for the arrival of Tropical Cyclone Alfred.

As tropical Cyclone Alfred is expected to make landfall in Queensland later this week, councils in the state’s southeast have begun to reduce services including ferries and kerbside collection. The cyclone is currently approximately 560 kilometres off the east coast of the state,

If you're in southeast Queensland, brace yourself. Tropical Cyclone Alfred is expected to cross the southeast Queensland coast late this Thursday as a Category 2 storm. The last tropical cyclone to make landfall in the region was ex-Tropical Cyclone Zoe in 1974,

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has cautioned that Cyclone Alfred is “tracking” to be a very “major event” for Queensland.