BoM path track map predicts Tropical Cyclone Alfred will cross coast on Friday near Brisbane, the first storm of its size to do so in decades. Follow the latest updates today

Read more of Guardian Australia’s Tropical Cyclone Alfred coverage:

• When and where is Cyclone Alfred likely to make landfall?
• What we know so far about Tropical Cyclone Alfred
• How to prepare for a cyclone
• Brisbane flood map: suburbs at risk during Cyclone Alfred

Welcome to our live coverage of Tropical Cyclone Alfred today.

Overnight, the cyclone travelled in a little circle out to sea, a manoeuvre which has thrown off yesterday’s predictions of when it would make landfall.