From this level onwards, you'll also here the word 'severe' added to the title of the tropical cyclone.  Categories 4 and 5 are where wind speeds become catastrophic; Cyclone Tracy was a category 4 ...

Tropical Cyclone Alfred, the seventh named storm in the Australian cyclone season, is expected to drive economic and insured ...

With residents across the east coast still clearing up their homes, the tales of survival and hope are slowly starting to ...

Tropical cyclones spin clockwise in the southern ... By far the best-known is Cyclone Tracy, which wiped out large parts of Darwin when it hit on Christmas Eve, 1974, killing 66 people in what ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Australian government said on Monday it would activate financial support for workers who lost income due to ex-Tropical ... 10,500 claims. Cyclone Tracy in 1974 remains ...

Sections of a historical and popular navy wreck dive have undergone a dramatic transformation at the hands of ex-tropical ...

Ten years after Tropical Cyclone Yasi ... A woman – who wished to remain anonymous – was caught in the eye of Cyclone Tracy in Darwin in 1974, and in 2011 opened up about her haunting memories.

Tropical Cyclone Tracy was so devastating for Darwin in part because building codes were so lax. Above, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s convoy tours the wreckage. By the time the warnings were ...