Posts Tagged ‘Tropical Cyclone’

State weather forecasters are now monitoring a shallow low-pressure area that they said has a chance of intensifying into a cyclone. The Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration said the SLPA threatens to bring flash floods to parts of Mindanao Wednesday.

Tropical Cyclone Carlos has reformed off the northwest shores of Australia, and it now poses a threat of damaging wind and flooding rain to a part of the nation’s north west. Already, as of Monday, Australian media reported that a “mini tornado” linked to Carlos tore through the coastal town of Karratha, Western Australia, damaging [...]

Flooding described as a one-in-500-year event has inundated swathes of the city of Darwin in Australia’s tropical Top End. As of Thursday, at least five homes had reportedly been flooded, and area streams ran exceptionally high, inundating some areas. The culprit, the lumbering and at-times stationary Tropical Cyclone Carlos, left four-day rainfall of 673 mm, [...]

Even as Carlos continues to inundate Darwin, a new tropical cyclone, dubbed Dianne, has taken shape off northwestern Australia, from whence it will eventually threaten the nation’s west with damaging winds and flooding rain. Wednesday morning, EST, the center of T.C. Dianne lay about 300 miles northwest of Learmonth, near Cape North West, Western Australia. [...]

Tropical Cyclone Bingiza is expected to reach hurricane strength prior to slamming into the southwestern Indian Ocean island of Madagascar later this weekend. Tropical Cyclone Bingiza continues to churn nearly stationary less than a few hundred miles off the shore of northeastern Madagascar. Bingiza’s strength is currently equal to that of a tropical storm in [...]

The cyclone that thrashed a still-soggy Queensland yesterday has re-energized an ongoing debate Down Under over what Australia can expect from a warmer planet and what the nation – the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide per capita – should do about it. Front and center in the fray is Ross Garnaut, the government’s climate [...]

CAIRNS—A huge cyclone barrelling towards Australia was Wednesday upgraded to the highest threat level as meteorologists warned it was shaping up to be the most life-threatening storm in generations. Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi strengthened to a category five storm from category four as it menaced the country’s populous east coast, where it was set to [...]

Two tropical cyclones are churning the tropical waters of the Southern Hemisphere as of Wednesday. Tropical Cyclone Vania has spun up near the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu. The center was within 125 miles, or 200 km, of Port-Vila, Vanuatu. Having highest sustained winds of 50 mph, Vania was nearly stationary with a sluggish [...]

Flooding and landslides left dozens missing and trapped hundreds of motorists in Taiwan as Typhoon Megi approached southern China Thursday night into Friday. Thousands of people were also evacuated. Some portions of northeastern Taiwan have been deluged by 25-45 inches of rain as moisture from Megi was drawn into Taiwan by another storm system. The [...]

CAUAYAN, Philippines (AP) — The strongest cyclone in years to buffet the Philippines knocked out communications and power as residents took shelter Monday, while flooding in Vietnam swept away a bus and 20 of its passengers, including a girl pulled from her mother’s grasp by the raging waters. Super Typhoon Megi, crossing the northern Philippines, [...]