ABC News (Australia) published this video item, entitled “Tropical Cyclone Niran intensifies off FNQ while storms battered south-east Queensland | ABC News” – below is their description.
Tropical Cyclone Niran off the Far North Queensland coast has intensified into a category two storm, keeping communities in the region on alert.
It comes as a wild storm battered south-east Queensland, blacking out nearly 18,000 homes and causing flash flooding that has left vehicles stranded.
ABC News (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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