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 global economy has shut down.
Cyclone Zelia: Severe tropical storm hits WA's Pilbara coast
Tropical Cyclone Zelia has crossed the Australian coast, unleashing strong winds and heavy rain but a key mining hub has been spared the worst of the impact.
Tropical Cyclone Zelia crosses WA coast as a category 4 storm
Tropical Cyclone Zelia has made landfall hours earlier than it was expected, threatening destructive winds and more than 500mm of rain.
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.
Iron ore ports close as Tropical Cyclone Zelia nears Western Australia
Tropical Cyclone Zelia made landfall on Australia's west coast on Friday, the weather bureau said, lashing the world's largest iron ore hub with heavy rain and wind gusts up to 290 kph (180 mph).
Tropical Cyclone Zelia rapidly strengthens into Category 5 storm before Australia landfall
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 expected landfall on the Pilbara coast.
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Atmospheric river storm system bears down on Bay Area
The National Weather Service said 2-4 inches of rain are expected in lower elevations, 4-8 inches in the higher ones.
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Atmospheric river will continue to drench portions of California, forecasters say
The weather service said this moisture will result ... narrow tracts of the Earth’s atmosphere that gather moisture from the tropics near the equator and sweep it toward the poles.
Tropical Cyclone Zelia makes landfall earlier than expected as category four storm hits east of Port Hedland on Western Australia's Pilbara Coast
Western Australian residents have been warned of destructive winds and heavy rainfall, including potential flooding, as Tropical Cyclone Zelia makes landfall earlier than expected.
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Severe Weather Awareness Week: Hurricanes & water
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Weather Words: Kona Low
Kona lows set up to the west or northwest of the islands and draw up lots of moisture from the south, creating messy and ...
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A dangerous mix: Snow and ice coating the Northeast, first in parade of storms
Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island faced a winter weather advisory all day Thursday ... despite the development of La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific and their temporary cooling ...