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  2. Cyclone Jasper crosses Australia's east coast as category 2 ...

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    The cyclone crossed near the Aboriginal community of Wujal Wujal, 110 kilometers (68 miles) north of Cairns, a city of 160,000. Wujal Wujal has a population of 300 but it was not immediately clear ...

  3. Australian resort towns along Great Barrier Reef brace for ...

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    Tropical Cyclone Jasper was slowly making landfall around the town of Wujal Wujal, roughly 115 km (72 miles) northeast of the popular tourist destination of Cairns at 3 p.m. (0500 GMT), bringing ...

  4. Cyclone Jasper - Wikipedia

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    Severe Tropical Cyclone Jasper was the wettest tropical cyclone in Australian history, surpassing Cyclone 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 ...

  5. Tropical cyclone tracking chart - Wikipedia

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    A tropical cyclone tracking chart is used by those within hurricane-threatened areas to track tropical cyclones worldwide. In the north Atlantic basin, they are known as hurricane tracking charts . New tropical cyclone information is available at least every six hours in the Northern Hemisphere and at least every twelve hours in the Southern ...

  6. Barron River (Queensland) - Wikipedia

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    Both agricultural and residential areas can be affected. A network of rainfall and river height field stations was established in 1995 to provide a flood warning system for the Cairns City Council. [13] Heavy rain associated with a cyclone early in 1939 caused substantial flooding on the Barron River and resulted in the river changing its course.

  7. Cyclone Kimi - Wikipedia

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    Tropical Cyclone Kimi was a small tropical cyclone which briefly threatened the Eastern Coast of North Queensland in January 2021. The tenth tropical low and third tropical cyclone of the 2020–21 Australian region cyclone season , Kimi originated from a weak tropical low which formed northeast of Queensland on 16 January.

  8. 2022 eastern Australia floods - Wikipedia

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    The city of Maryborough also suffered flooding in parts of its CBD and cut bridges, an 11-metre flood levee was erected to protect the rest of the city centre. [ 35 ] On 23 February 2022, freight train Y279, operated by Aurizon derailed at approximately 3:30am due to flash flooding that had resulted in a track washout at the 149.020km point ...

  9. Tropical cyclones in 2024 - Wikipedia

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    [67] [68] Tropical Cyclone Lincoln formed on 16 February and made landfall on the Gulf of Carpentaria coast. [69] Severe Tropical Cyclone Neville formed north of the Cocos Islands [70] on 1 March and left the basin 20 days later. [71] Severe Tropical Cyclone Megan formed on 13 March from a tropical low over the coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria ...