Talk of Cyclone Freddy creating dangerous surf conditions along the Queensland and New South Wales coastlines may have been premature, due to the name being snapped up by a low off Western Australia.
Tropical Cyclone Freddy formed around 700 kilometres north of Broome on Monday night, and while it is expected to intensify into a Severe Category Three system, it is not expected to impact the mainland.
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