7NEWS Australia published this video item, entitled “FLASHBACK: Cyclone Ada | 7NEWS” – below is their description.
This week back in 1970, parts of Queensland were smashed by Cyclone Ada. It kicked off what would become an extremely destructive decade of cyclone activity.
But one of Ada’s legacies lives on and protects communities to this day.
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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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