Before and after pictures of Australia’s east coast show the true scale of devastation caused by Tropical Cyclone ... an associate professor in physical geography at the aptly name University ...

The central part of the tropical cyclone is known as the eye. The eye is usually 32-48 km across. It is an area of light wind speeds and no rain. It contains descending air. When tropical cyclones ...

Climate change has affected the severity and frequency of such storms, scientists warn. Tropical cyclones -- the term for ...

After days hovering off the coast as a category 2 tropical cyclone and battering a 400-kilometre (250-mile) stretch of coastline, Alfred weakened into a tropical depression before making landfall ...

Previously there were between six and seven such events -- cyclones as well as tropical storms -- a decade, he said. But in the previous six seasons, there had already been 10, he added.