Cyclones are common along the sparsely populated Pilbara coast of Western Australia state and fatalities are rare, but authorities fear that Cyclone Ilsa’s extraordinary wind speeds could take some in its path by surprise. Ilsa reached the highest Category 5 intensity Thursday over the Indian Ocean...
On April 11, 2021, a category three storm made a rare landfall in Western Australia, causing significant damage to coastal towns that are mostly ill-equipped for cyclones. Tropical Cyclone Seroja tore through 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) of land, knocking down trees and damaging buildings along...
and on the 17th only a wide clockwise circulation remained over Zimbabwe. Despite the weakening, remnants of TC Idai still produced rains that affected the region. On the 19th, it left the mainland and on the 21st of March it dissipated (ECDC, 2019).Fig. 11.3shows the path of TC Idai...
Iron ore vessels are preparing to leave the anchorage at Western Australia's Port Hedland as an imminent Cyclone Lucas develops and moves southwest towards the Pilbara coast. A tropical low is expected to develop into Cyclone Lucas by the morning of 22 January, before intensifying and approaching ...
The winds are driven by this low-pressure core and by the rotation of Earth, which deflects the path of the wind through a phenomenon known as the Coriolis force. As a result, tropical cyclones rotate in a counterclockwise direction in the Northern Hemisphere and in a clockwise direction in...
Cyclone track map showing the forecast path of Gabrielle as at 13 February 7am. Noting the sharp deviation in the track near Great Barrier Island. Why was Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle so impactful? Well before this event, when meteorologists at MetService were asked “What would be the worst weat...
Since 1959, it has been found in Western Australia, and since 1970, in Tasmania (Pope, 1988). In North America, it was first discovered in 1912 in Massachusetts; now it is found in the northeastern United States, southern Canada, British Columbia, and the Seattle area of Washington State ...
But its path of destruction isn't over yet. After leaving the mainland, the tropical cyclone "looped back towards the Mozambique Channel and picked up energy from the warm waters and moved towards the south-western coast of Madagascar," the WMO said. Throughout Wednesday, betwe...
Specific flaws include 1) invalid assumptions in their analysis method, including that cyclones are assumed to be at the maximum intensity along their entire path across the sampling circle even after they have crossed extensive land areas; 2) a lack of verification that the...
Tropical cyclones are compact, circular storms, generally some 320 km (200 miles) indiameter, whose winds swirl around a central region of low atmospheric pressure. The winds are driven by this low-pressure core and by the rotation ofEarth, which deflects the path of thewindthrough a phenomen...