As Cyclone Alfred is forecast to make landfall in southeast Queensland on Thursday, residents in Brisbane and the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales are being urged to take precautions.

Millions of Australians across Queensland and northern New South Wales are bracing for tropical Cyclone Alfred to make landfall in the next 72 hours. More than 4 million people from Sandy Cape to Grafton have been warned that the storm will strike by the end of the week,

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, half a century ago.