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Some tourist towns along Australia's Great Barrier Reef and other places in northeastern Queensland state are bracing for a potential tropical cyclone which is expected to make landfall on ...
And there is a warning for locals to watch for crocodiles lurking in floodwaters away from their usual habitats. Sitting in the tropics, north Queensland is prone to destructive cyclones, storms ...
Severe Tropical Cyclone Kirrily was a long-lived and strong tropical cyclone that affected East Australia and the Northern Territory during January and February 2024. The third named storm and severe tropical cyclone of the 2023–24 Australian region cyclone season , Kirrily developed from a tropical low that formed within the Coral Sea .
Queensland's Premier David Crisafulli offered his condolences to the "tight-knit" town of Ingham, after a 63-year-old woman died when a State Emergency Service (SES) dinghy capsized during a ...
The 2024–25 Australian region cyclone season is an ongoing weather event in the southern hemisphere. The season has officially started on 1 November 2024 and will end on 30 April 2025, however, a tropical cyclone could form at any time between 1 July 2024 and 30 June 2025 and would count towards the season total.
Tropical cyclones that develop north of 11°S between 151°E and 160°E are assigned names by the Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. Tropical cyclone formation in this area is extremely rare, with no cyclones being named in it since 2007. [218] As names are assigned in a random order, the whole list is shown below:
Severe Tropical Cyclone Jasper was the wettest tropical cyclone in Australian history, surpassing Peter of 1979. [2] The third disturbance of the 2023–24 South Pacific cyclone season and the first named storm and severe tropical cyclone of the 2023–24 Australian region cyclone season, Jasper was first noted as an area of low pressure located in the South Pacific Ocean, which was initially ...
A cyclone in Northern Queensland killed 99 people over two days in mid March 1934. [50] A cyclone struck the Gold Coast on 20 February 1954. Four people were killed during the cyclone, [51] while a further 22 died in the resulting floods around Lismore in Northern New South Wales. [52]