Australia news live: Tropical Cyclone Narelle crosses NT coast as category three system

Weakening system expected to bring severe weather across parts of NT already saturated from recent rains and flooding. Follow live updates

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Welcome to another Sunday Guardian live blog.

We’ll continue to bring you the latest on Tropical Cyclone Narelle, which crossed the Northern Territory coast early this morning as a severe category three system, and will continue moving west bringing rain and dangerous storm surges across the Top End.

Within this severe weather warning zone, we will see 24-hour rainfall totals of between 180 to 230 millimetres and some isolated locations could see more than 300mm, particularly to the north of Katherine, and this could produce dangerous and life-threatening flash flooding.