Although Tropical Cyclone Sose remained far from Australia's shores, the large size of the circulation in combination with a high centred near New Zealand resulted in gales which generated huge waves that battered portions of Australia's East Coast. The significant wave height at the Brisbane wave rider buoy reached 4.8 m with the wave period reaching 16 seconds. The large seas combined with large tides caused beach erosion. There were two drownings on the Queensland coast near the Town of 1770 on the 8th when large E swells came into an area usually protected from the prevailing SE swells.

Rockhampton Regional Council in partnership with the Queensland a…