PERTH, Australia (AP) — Miners, cattle ranchers, tourists and Indigenous locals were evacuating from Australia’s remote northwest coast on Wednesday as an intensifying tropical cyclone approached. Cyclone Ilsa is expected to peak as a Category 4 storm as it crosses …
Authorities along India’s east coast and neighboring Bangladesh evacuated millions to safer places and shut some factories as the biggest cyclonic storm in two decades makes landfall, causing heavy rain and strong winds in the region. Amphan, now equivalent of …
A powerful typhoon hit the Philippines on Friday and moved out to the South China Sea: HURRICANE? CYCLONE? TYPHOON? They’re all the same, officially tropical cyclones. But they just use distinctive terms for a storm in different parts of the …
A once-in-a-decade typhoon threatened Japan on Tuesday forcing the cancellation of flights and trains and disrupting oil shipments as it made its way across the Pacific directly towards the capital, Tokyo. Typhoon Wipha is expected to make landfall right around …
According to catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide, with 1-minute sustained winds of 136 km/h and gusts to 170 km/h, Tropical Cyclone Rusty came ashore as a severe tropical cyclone—a category 3 storm by the Australian system of cyclone classification (approximately …
Forecasters say a new tropical depression is moving toward Bermuda but hasn’t strengthened yet. The National Hurricane Center said at 0900 GMT Sunday that the depression was about 300 miles (480 kilometers) south-southeast of Bermuda. It had maximum sustained winds …
According to a bulletin on its web site, the Insurance Council of Australia has released updated figures on “how the general industry has responded to the enormous task of assessing over 118,000 insurance claims received as a result of the …