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Tropical Cyclone Alfred is currently a category one system and is expected to intensify to a category two cyclone tonight.

The weather bureau says it's expected to make landfall between Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast late on Thursday or Friday morning.

Jessica van Vonderen and Jenny Woodward are standing by for Queensland’s 7pm TV news. 

They’ll take you through today’s top developments, the latest weather warnings and forecasts. 

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The championships were set to be held at North Kirra from Friday to Sunday. 

 "The safety of our competitors, officials and staff comes first," carnival committee chair Nigel Ward says. 

"We also needed to think about the safety around travel for our members to and from the event, given people come from all over Queensland to take part. 

“The modelling and advice received is that conditions are expected to deteriorate throughout the week, with large-scale beach closures across the state already confirmed."

It's the first time many people in south-east Queensland will experience the direct effects of a tropical cyclone, given the last one was in 1974.

Here is a guide on how you can prepare for TC Alfred.

Reporting by Janel Shorthouse and Lottie Twyford 

Gold Coast resident Narelle Russell and Kathleen Hudson from Logan decided to cut their holiday short and pack up.

"I'd like to just get home and away from this … because you just don't know … you can't play with Mother Nature," Ms Hudson said.

"It's unpredictable," added Ms Russell.

Jason Filippini, who manages Cotton Tree Holiday Park near Maroochydore and four other parks, said about 30 per cent of guests were staying in place, while most had left early or cancelled.

He said he would be working closely with the parks' permanent residents to ensure they had a safe place to evacuate to if needed and had been asking them to consider "alternate accommodation arrangements" for the end of the week.

“Creating a safe space for them, having some kind of speaker system setup to allow them to have music on,” Greenbank Vet Hospital's Stuart Unsworth told ABC Radio Brisbane. 

“Some dogs respond really well to thunder jackets. These heavy weighted jackets can be really helpful so if your dog is really nervous, popping out and getting one of those can help them with managing some of the more severe symptoms of storm phobias.”

Dr Unsworth says some residents might be faced with trying to care for larger outdoor animals or farm animals. 

“Make sure the outdoor facilities are as prepared as possible — trying to make your house and buildings as wind proof as possible."

Reporting by Danielle Mahe

Maureen Price said she had to wait about an hour and a half at the depot for sandbags at Burleigh Heads on the Gold Coast.

Despite the long queues, she said she was glad that she was able to get some sandbags to protect her home.

"There's going to be a lot of rain, and I was just worried about the water getting in under the glass sliding doors — so I just thought, just to be safe, I better get some sandbags," she says.

Reporting by Will Murray

Tanya Groom owns the passenger ferry, the Stradbroke Flyer, which services North Stradbroke Island.

She said their large vessel Calypso will dock on Wednesday and their other ferry Legacy will be on restricted services on Wednseday and Thursday.

"There's the possiblily of no services Friday, Saturday and Sunday, depending on the cyclone."

Meanwhile, vehicle ferries to the Southern Moreton Bay Islands will operate on a reduced schedule on Tuesday.

Tropical Cyclone Alfred is about 500km east, north-east of Brisbane and 480km east of Maroochydore and is moving south-east at 14kph. 

The BOM says people between Sandy Cape in Queensland and Grafton in NSW should consider what action they will need to take if the cyclone threat increases.

It is currently a category one system and is expected to intensify to a category two cyclone tonight as its south-eastwards movement slows. 

"Alfred's intensity may fluctuate between category one and two while it remains off the coast during Tuesday and Wednesday," the BOM says. 

It's expected to make landfall between Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast late on Thursday or Friday morning.

Damaging wind gusts of up to 120 kph are expected to develop between Tewantin and Grafton during Wednesday. 

Heavy rainfall is forecast for south-east Queensland and northeastern NSW from Wednesday.

According to the Bureau of Meteorology, if TC Alfred crosses as a cat 2 system, this is what you can expect: 

• Destructive winds. Minor house damage. 
• Significant damage to signs, trees and caravans. 
• Heavy damage to some crops. 
• Risk of power failure. 
• Small craft may break moorings

A maximum mean wind speed is usually between 89–117 kph.

The typical strongest gust is 125–164 kph.