Update 3:42 p.m. ET
(Bloomberg) -- The worst cyclone in six years is set to smash into the coast of Queensland on Tuesday morning, forcing thousands of Australians to evacuate or seek emergency shelter and prompting some of the world’s biggest miners to halt coal operations.
Cyclone Debbie is forecast to intensify before it makes landfall north of the city of Mackay with winds as strong as 275 kilometers an hour (171 miles per hour) at its “very destructive core,” according to the Bureau of Meteorology. Police warned that 25,000 residents need to evacuate the city due to an expected storm surge.
|'Severe cyclone'
“This is going to be a severe cyclone,” Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk told reporters Monday. “It is increasing in intensity.”
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