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Authorities have warned lives, homes and infrastructure are at risk from a category five cyclone tracking towards Western Australia's Pilbara coast. Tropical Cyclone Zelia is expected to make ...
This is why the Australian cyclone intensity scale doesn't exactly match up to the Atlantic hurricane intensity scale. Downgraded by the BOM to Category 3 by Tuesday afternoon, Cyclone Debbie hit ...
(Zoom Earth pic) A severe tropical cyclone was rapidly building strength off Australia’s minerals-rich ... five system – the strongest on the scale – before making landfall on Friday afternoon.
SYDNEY — Tropical Cyclone Zelia made landfall on Australia’s west coast on Friday ... the highest rating on the scale. It then moved south and weakened to a category four, sparing ...
Cyclones typically form in tropical northern Australia, but Alfred is hitting ... Authorities use the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale to classify storms. The scale divides hurricanes into ...
Tropical Cyclone Alfred is approaching Australia’s east coast and could ... Alfred will come ashore as a Level 1 of 5 storm on its scale, with winds roughly equivalent to a moderate tropical ...
Australian meteorologist Tony Auden told Sky News that the cyclone had the potential to be on a scale the country hasn't seen in a "generation" or "a lifetime". He said the last comparable cyclone ...
A slow-moving tropical storm has crossed Australia’s heavily populated eastern coast, lashing the region with damaging winds and heavy rain that’s forecast to fall for days to come.
Western Australia's emergency warning system ... Rather than issuing an "all clear" alert after the cyclone has passed, DFES will scale the warning level back down to a "cyclone advice" until ...