The toll from Cyclone George, which ravaged the WA coast last week, has risen to three with the death of a Queensland man in hospital today. Police said 42-year-old Craig Allan Raabe from Gympie died in Perth this morning from his injuries suffered during Cyclone George. He was an employee at the Fortescue Metals Group mining camp where 47-year-old Perth woman Debra Till died, Police spokeswoman Ros Weatherall said. Sydney Desmond Baker, 74, died at Indee Station of a heart attack during the cyclone. Residents of Pilbara in WA are battening down the hatches in preparation for another walloping, with Cyclone Jacob on its way. Cyclone Jacob is set to hit the Pilbara coastline overnight but has been downgraded to a category one cyclone. At 3pm today, it was 280km west-northwest of Karratha and 430km west-northwest of Port Hedland and moving east-southeast at 17km/h.
Gales with gusts to 100km/h may develop on the Pilbara coast between Onslow and Whim Creek tonight, possibly extending to other parts of the warning zone overnight, the Bureau of Meteorology said. Tropical Cyclone Jacob was expected to impact on the coast overnight and into tomorrow and was unlikely to significantly intensify before making landfall, and may continue to weaken.