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Cyclone Althea originated in an expanding area of thunderstorm activity near the Solomon Islands in mid-December 1971. Although little is known about the storm's genesis because of sparse reports and infrequent weather satellite images, [ 1 ] the disturbance is thought to have organised into a tropical low on 19 December as it tracked slowly ...
Tropical Cyclone Althea was a Category 4 cyclone when it hit the coast some 50 km north of Magnetic Island and Townsville in North Queensland on December 24, 1971. [1] Althea produced peak gust wind speeds between 123 and 145 miles per hour (197 and 233 km/h). Three people died and property damage was estimated at A$115 million loss (1990 value).
View history; Tools. Tools. ... Category 3 is known to be the third-highest classification on the Australian tropical cyclone intensity scale which is used to ...
Cyclone Althea was a severe tropical cyclone that devastated parts of North Queensland just before Christmas during the 1971–72 Australian region cyclone season.The fourth system and second severe tropical cyclone of the season, Althea was one of the strongest storms ever to affect the Townsville area.
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 ...
On Christmas Eve 1971, Tropical Cyclone Althea, a category 4 cyclone, battered the city and Magnetic Island, causing considerable damage. [52] In 1973, Indigenous activists Eddie and Bonita Mabo established the Black Community School in Townsville, where children could learn their Indigenous culture rather than white culture. [53]
1971 - Severe Tropical Cyclone Althea made landfall in northern Queensland, Australia causing $115 million of damage. 2019 - Typhoon Phanfone (pictured) makes landfall in Eastern Samar , Philippines , just before intensifying into a Category 3 typhoon. 50 were dead while 55 people remained missing.
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