Widely known as the getaway to the Great Barrier Reef, Cairns is the perennially warm, buzzing capital city of Tropical North Queensland, a hotspot for lovers of azure waters, postcard-perfect beaches ...

A trough extends offshore over northern waters towards the Whitsundays, with an embedded tropical low east of Cairns. A high [1021 hPa] near New Zealand is maintaining a ridge over the remaining ...