Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 2011–12 Australian region cyclone season was a below average tropical cyclone season, with 7 cyclones forming rather than the usual 11. It began on 1 November 2011, and ended on 14 May 2012. It began on 1 November 2011, and ended on 14 May 2012.
The 2010–11 Australian region cyclone season was a near average tropical cyclone season, with eleven tropical cyclones forming compared to an average of 12. The season was also the costliest recorded in the Australian region basin, with a total of $3.62 billion (2011 USD) in damages, mostly from the destructive Cyclone Yasi. [1]
2010–11 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season 2: Comoros, Madagascar, Réunion: 7 2 None 34 2011–12 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season 3: Madagascar: 3 2 None None 2010–11 Australian region cyclone season 2: Northern Territory, Western Australia, Solomon Islands, Indonesia: 19 7 $2.7 billion 3 2011–12 Australian region cyclone season
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 ...
From the 2020–21 season, the three TCWCs were unified into one single TCWC which still monitors all tropical cyclones that form within the Australian region, including any within the areas of responsibility of TCWC Jakarta or TCWC Port Moresby. [4] Later in 2021, the Australian tropical cyclone warning centre was officially named as TCWC ...
The summer of 2013-14 was the driest since 1986–87, recording only 106.6 mm (4.20 in) of rain during the season, close to a third of the average of 297.7 mm (11.72 in). [77] Observatory Hill only received 17 mm (0.67 in) of rain in January. [78] September 2017 was the driest on record, with the gauge receiving only 0.2 mm (0.0079 in) of rain.
Cyclone Billy–Lila near peak strength off the western coast of Australia on 10 May 1986. An off-season Australian tropical cyclone is a tropical cyclone that existed in the Australian Region, between 90°E and 160°E, outside of the official season.
4 September – Rugby League: The Melbourne Storm win their first legitimate minor premiership following the final main round of the 2011 NRL season. The Gold Coast Titans finish in last position, claiming the wooden spoon. 12 September – Tennis: Samantha Stosur wins the 2011 US Open, her first Grand Slam singles title. [71]