Cyclone Tracy has been described as the most significant tropical cyclone in Australia's history and it changed how we viewed the threat of tropical cyclones to northern Australia. Five days ...

Before it downgraded to a tropical low, the winds around Cyclone Trevor's eye peaked at 175kph, gusting to 250kph, which the Bureau of Meteorology says puts it on par with the notorious Cyclone Tracy.

Exactly 50 years ago, on Christmas Eve 1974, Cyclone Tracy struck Darwin and left a trail of devastation. It remains one of the most destructive natural events in Australia's history.

Cyclone Hyacinthe was the wettest tropical cyclone ever. Hyacinthe formed in the southern Indian Ocean back on Jan. 15, 1980. It became the wettest storm on record without making a single landfall.

Fifty years on, we recall the devastation of Cyclone Tracy and the extensive evacuation and reconstruction that followed. ... Four days earlier, on 21 December 1974, the BoM had issued an alert of the ...

Cyclone Tracy’s path . Cyclone Tracy was just an unnamed weak tropical low about 700km north-east of Darwin on 10 December when it was first detected. Eleven days later the low developed into a ...

Post-Tropical Cyclone Sandy is three times the size of Cyclone Yasi, which devastated Queensland last year, and more than 15 times the size of Cyclone Tracy, which hit Darwin at Christmas 1974.

Cyclone Tracy began forming as a tropical low on December 20, 1974, in the Arafura Sea, between Timor and West New Guinea, an area known as a ‘cyclone breeding ground’.

The NT’s first recorded cyclone – said to have an intensity comparable with Tracy – hit on November 25, 1839, wiping out the fledgling Port Essington settlement. We look at the Top End’s ...

The exception was Cyclone Tracy, technically the world’s most compact tropical cyclone, which rammed Darwin, Australia, with major hurricane winds in 1974 in the midst of Christmas celebrations ...

“For example, Tracy has been retired after the damage caused by Tropical Cyclone Tracy in 1974,” it explained. Looking ahead, ...