Cyclone warnings have been issued for The Top End of Australia’s Northern Territory (NT) and the Kimberly region of Western Australia as a tropical low pressure system intensifies to the west of Darwin. The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has been monitoring a mass of clouds over the Timor Sea around 320km west of Darwin, which has drawn moisture from Indonesia over the past 24 hours. This, in addition to sea surface temperatures of around 30 degrees Celsius, is providing fuel for the weather system to intensify. BOM has issued a warning of gales up to 100 kilometres (62 miles) per hour developing in western parts of the Tiwi Islands by Friday night and potentially extending between Point Stuart, east of Darwin and Wadeye, not far from the Western Australian border, on Saturday. Darwin is included in areas under the cyclone watch. In addition, heavy rainfall may lash the Tiwi Islands and …