John O'Groat Journal and Caithness Courier6d
Wick’s windy January can be measured on Beaufort scale
The Beaufort ... “hurricane force” because the speed is used to define when a tropical storm is upgraded to hurricane status in the North Atlantic and eastern Pacific. However, in the Western Pacific, ...
Powerful Tropical Cyclone Zelia Churns Toward Northwest Australia
The storm is expected to make landfall Friday afternoon, with wind gusts of up to 180 miles per hour. A port crucial to the ...
Bracing for a monster: Tropical Cyclone Zelia is bearing down on WA. Here’s what to expect
Severe Tropical Cyclone Zelia is bearing down on the northwest coast of Australia and is likely to make landfall early Friday evening.
Category 4 Tropical Cyclone Zelia, with 180-mph gusts, strikes Western Australia
Tropical Cyclone Zelia made landfall Friday on Australia's west coast as a Category 4 storm with maximum sustained wind gusts ...
The New York Times7d
Tropical Cyclone Zelia Makes Landfall in Northwest Australia
The storm’s winds equaled those of a Category 4 hurricane, and residents were told to stay indoors to shelter from destructive winds and flooding. By John Yoon Tropical Cyclone Zelia made ...
AOL9d
Tropical Cyclone Zelia rapidly strengthens into Category 5 storm before Australia landfall
PORT HEDLAND, Australia – Residents in Western Australia are bracing for Tropical Cyclone Zelia's impacts after the storm rapidly strengthened into a destructive Category 5 storm ahead of its ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation9d
Cyclone Zelia rated as category five — the highest on the scale — but what exactly does this mean?
Authorities have warned lives, homes and infrastructure are at risk from a category five cyclone tracking towards Western Australia's Pilbara coast. Tropical Cyclone Zelia is expected to make ...
manilatimes7d
Tropical cyclone hits Western Australia
SYDNEY, Australia — Severe Tropical Cyclone Zelia powered into Australia's minerals-rich west coast Friday, with gusts of 290 kilometers per hour sparking emergency warnings and closing ports. The ...
UPI7d
Category 4 Tropical Cyclone Zelia, with 180-mph gusts, strikes Western Australia
14 (UPI) --Tropical ... cyclones in the country, according to the Bureau of Meteorology. Since 1961, Australia's mainland has had 18 other storms rated Category 4 or 5 on the Saffir-Simpson Wind ...
Reuters9d
Tropical cyclone forces closure of ports in Western Australia's Pilbara region
SYDNEY, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Western Australia's ports of Dampier and Varanus Island will be closed at 6 p.m. (1000 GMT) on Thursday due to Tropical Cyclone Zelia, the ports' operator said ...
Couriermail6d
Tropical Cyclone Zelia brought record rain for weather stations across state
“Because of this, Port Hedland avoided the very destructive core of the tropical cyclone as it moved over land,” he said. The cyclone still managed to smash parts of the Pilbara with nearby ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation9d
Severe Tropical Cyclone Zelia hits category 5 strength as Port Hedland battens down
Severe Tropical Cyclone Zelia has reached category five strength, with extreme wind gusts of up to 320kph forecast to hit the Pilbara. A cyclone watch and act alert is in place from Eighty Mile ...