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Severe Tropical Cyclone Larry was a tropical cyclone that made landfall in Australia during the 2005–06 Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season.Larry originated as a low pressure system over the eastern Coral Sea on 16 March 2006, and was monitored by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology in Brisbane, Australia.
Hurricane Larry was a strong and long-lived tropical cyclone that became the first hurricane to make landfall in Newfoundland since Igor in 2010.The twelfth named storm, fifth hurricane, and third major hurricane of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season, Larry originated from a tropical wave that emerged off the coast of Africa and organized into a tropical depression on August 31.
Cyclone Larry (2006) – a severe tropical cyclone that made landfall near Innisfail, Queensland, and caused roughly AU$1.5 billion (US$1.1 billion) in damage List of storms with the same or similar names
While Innisfail was always reputed to have a positive sense of community spirit, the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Larry and the unified cleanup effort acted to promote this spirit through shared suffering. [63] Cyclone Larry was a direct and primary cause of the widely reported and dramatic surge in banana prices in Australia.
Mourilyan is a town and locality in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. [2] [3] It was established around the Mourilyan sugar mill which provided much of the employment in the area until it was destroyed by Cyclone Larry on 20 March 2006.
The 2008 North Indian cyclone season was one of the most disastrous tropical cyclone seasons in modern history, with tropical cyclones leaving more than 140,000 people dead and causing more than US$15 billion in damage, making it the costliest season in the North Indian Ocean, until it was made second in 2020. The IMD monitored a total of ten ...
2006 - Cyclone Larry (pictured) made landfall near Innisfail, Queensland as a Category 5 cyclone, causing about AU$1.4 billion (US$1 billion) worth of damage.
20 March – Tropical Cyclone Larry strikes Innisfail and Cairns in Far North Queensland. Despite hundreds of millions of dollars in damage, no-one is killed. 23 March – Microsoft releases the Xbox 360 games console in Australia. 27 March – The WorkChoices industrial relations reforms come into effect.