Tropical Cyclone Paul has been declared off the coast of Far North Queensland, the Bureau of Meteorology confirmed today.
The category 2 tropical cyclone formed rapidly overnight and sits around 1000 kilometres north-east of Cairns.
The cyclone is growing in intensity and could reach category three later this afternoon.
The tropical cyclone is slowly moving south-east from the coral sea, whipping up winds up to 92 kilometres per hour.
The BoM predicts that the cyclone will not impact the Australian mainland or islands off the east coast of Australia.
Yesterday the BoM predicted only a fifteen per cent chance that the tropical low system would develop into a cyclone.
