Australia is tracking its highest category storm in years after tropical Cyclone Ilsa developed into a highest-severity category five system and is expected to cross Western Australia’s coast with winds up to 285 kilometres ( around 177 miles) per hour.
Initially expected to make landfall as a category four system, the Bureau of Meteorology forecast for the cyclone was upgraded on Thursday afternoon as it moved closer to the Australian town of Port Hedland.
It will now likely cross the coast as the highest category of storm about 150km north, near the remote fuel station Pardoo Roadhouse, and late on Thursday rather than early Friday….