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unusual facts about cyclones



1998 Cairns Cyclones season

The Cyclones were one of sixteen clubs competing in the twenty-two week long competition (Bundaberg Grizzlies re-joining the competition in 1998 and the Townsville Stingers and Gold Coast Vikings joined for the first time. Port Moresby Vipers left the competition due to travel and accommodation costs.)

2006 Central Pacific cyclone

The convective structure resembled a tropical, rather than subtropical cyclone, and the radius of maximum winds (based on QuikSCAT) was very close to the center, also more typical of tropical cyclones... on balance, it was more tropical than subtropical.

2008–09 South Pacific cyclone season

No Tropical Cyclone intensified into a Severe Tropical cyclones this season to the east of 160E, with only Cyclone Hamish intensifying into one to the west of 160E.

2013 Somalia cyclone

On November 9, Puntland's Interior Minister Ali Yusuf Ali Hosh announced on Radio Garowe that the Puntland authorities had been informed by international meteorological agencies that flood-inducing cyclones were expected to hit Somalia's northeastern coast.

ATCF

Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecasting System, software used for forecasting tropical cyclones within United States agencies

Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development

· Pierre Johannessen swapping a comfortable desk job in Canberra to raise funds for rebuilding homes destroyed by cyclones in poverty-stricken Bangladesh.

Cyclone Yemyin

At the time, the official WMO body responsible for tropical cyclones in the Arabian Sea, the India Meteorological Department (IMD), did not name the storm.

Donels

Ray Donels, American football coach for the Iowa State University Cyclones

Fernanda

Hurricane Fernanda has referred to ten tropical cyclones in the Eastern Pacific Ocean

Fiji Meteorological Service

Its specialty is forecasting tropical cyclones south of the equator to the 25th parallel south, and between the 160th meridian east and 120th meridian west longitude.

José Carlos Millás

In the 1930s, before radar and refined hurricane-tracking equipment was available, Millás collaborated with R. W. Gray and Grady Norton of the Weather Bureau to plot the course of tropical cyclones.

Kent State University Ice Arena

The Ice Arena also hosts the Tri-County Cyclones youth teams as well as four area high school teams: Theodore Roosevelt High School in Kent, Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy and Walsh Jesuit High School in Cuyahoga Falls, and Western Reserve Academy in Hudson.

Larry Eustachy

On April 28, 2003; The Des Moines Register carried pictures of Eustachy kissing several young women and holding a beer at a party near the University of Missouri's campus just hours after the Tigers defeated Eustachy's Cyclones on January 22.

Marri Shashidhar Reddy

In 2005, he became part of the high-powered National Disaster Management Authority, he has been responsible for formulating the Government of India guidelines that would ensure prompt and effective response to cyclones in any part of India.

Mascarene Martin

More recent cyclones, like one in 1980, seem to have had less damaging effects than the 1861 storm.

Reading Royals

The Cyclones continued on to sweep past other teams to win the cup, but the Royals were the only team to take them to seven games in the playoffs.

Sava Region

However, due to the volatile fluctuations in the price of vanilla, in turn often caused by the dramatic cyclones occurring the southwestern Indian Ocean, many poor vanilla farmers in the Sava Region have periodically been forced to resort to the mostly illegal logging of ebony, palisander, and rosewood.

Smith Street, Darwin

It was badly damaged by cyclones in 1897, 1937 and in 1974.

The Gun Club

The band was originally a rockabilly band called The Cyclones led by Pleasant Gehman on lead vocals, but Gehman departed after only one show which was at Gazzarri's, a club on the Sunset Strip and their opening act was The GoGos.

Tim Floyd

During that season, the Cyclones were ranked in the AP Top 25 poll for 11 consecutive weeks, peaking at number eleven.

Tropical cyclone warnings and watches

The Pearl River Delta uses a variety of warning systems to inform the public regarding the risks of tropical cyclones to the area.

Xaibe

Because of its location on the Caribbean coastline, it is vulnerable to tropical cyclones; Hurricane Janet and Hurricane Dean, both Category 5 storms, made landfall near Xaibe village in 1955 and 2007 respectively.

Yutu

Typhoon Yutu, name of several tropical cyclones in the northwestern Pacific Ocean


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