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Severe Tropical Cyclone Damien brought “very destructive” winds and flooding to Western Australia’s Pilbara region when it hit the state’s coast as a Category 3 system on Saturday ...
Damien began tracking south, later intensifying to a powerful category 2 cyclone, later Damien tracks a little to the west, with it quickly changing its track a little to the east while going south, soon it made landfall in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, with winds peak winds of 160 km/h (100 mph), Damien kept tracking west before ...
Cyclone Damien (1987) – a category 2 tropical cyclone near Western Australia. Cyclone Damien (1999) – a Category 3 severe tropical cyclone (Australian scale), mostly stayed at sea. Cyclone Damien (2020) – was the strongest cyclone to make landfall in the Western Australian coast since Cyclone Christine in 2013.
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Tropical cyclones are non-frontal, low-pressure systems that develop, within an environment of warm sea surface temperatures and little vertical wind shear aloft. [1] Within the Australian region, names are assigned from three pre-determined lists, to such systems, once they reach or exceed ten–minute sustained wind speeds of 65 km/h (40 mph), near the center, by either the Australian Bureau ...
In most regions, if the atmospheric pressure drops at least 24 millibars within 24 hours, it is considered a bomb cyclone. Bomb cyclones can occur when a cold air mass collides with a warm air ...
A deadly “bomb cyclone” slammed into the Northwest US late Tuesday, killing at least one and leaving more than 700,000 without power as the major storm battered the region with strong winds ...
Eastern Australian Floods caused by Cyclone Debbie: Southern Queensland, Northern NSW: 12 [25] January – February 2019 Townsville flood: Queensland 5 [26] February 2020: Widespread flooding in Sydney basin and the Blue Mountains, flooding in central west to the north of NSW and flooding caused by Tropical Cyclone Damien in Karratha: NSW, WA ...