Brazil's National Institute of Meteorology (Inmet) Wednesday issued an alert over an extratropical cyclone due to an area of low continental pressure between northern Argentina and Paraguay.

Weather patterns mean most cyclones heading south are diverted to the east, where remnants can hit New Zealand as large extratropical ... size of the wind-affected area. But a cyclone's rain ...

where it will be configured as an extratropical cyclone,” Inumet said in a statement. The “most affected area will be the South and East of the country,” the agency went on as a system of ...

“When tropical cyclones interact with a mid-latitude trough, they undergo a process called extratropical transition ... impacting a larger area,” Dr Iftekhar Ahmed, associate professor ...

The fact that Alfred is set to make landfall is very unusual. But we can’t yet definitively say this is due to climate change. Cyclones are steered by winds and weather patterns, and the Coral Sea’s ...