7NEWS Australia published this video item, entitled “Far North emergency services are testing their readiness for a cyclone | 7NEWS” – below is their description.
Far North emergency services are testing their readiness for a cyclone, by conducting a mock flooding event in Woree.
Cairns Deputy Mayor Terry James says ‘Exercise Genesis’ is designed to make sure authorities know their roles in a disaster.
“We are officially expecting more rain than we would normally get.”
7NEWS Australia YouTube Channel
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In meteorology, a cyclone is a large scale air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure. Cyclones are characterized by inward spiraling winds that rotate about a zone of low pressure and typically bring winds, rain, high waves and storm surges to the areas they pass.
In the Atlantic and the northeastern Pacific oceans, a tropical cyclone is generally referred to as a hurricane (from the name of the ancient Central American deity of wind, Huracan), in the Indian and south Pacific oceans it is called a cyclone, and in the northwestern Pacific it is called a typhoon.
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