Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Cyclone Althea

Index Cyclone Althea

Severe Tropical Cyclone Althea was a powerful tropical cyclone that devastated parts of North Queensland just before Christmas 1971. [1]

106 relations: Ancestry.com, Anemometer, Anzac Memorial Park, Townsville, Arcadia, Queensland, Australian Army, Australian dollar, Australian Geographer, Balgal Beach, Queensland, Beaufort scale, Bowen, Queensland, Brisbane, Building code, Burdekin River, Bureau of Meteorology, Cape Pallarenda Conservation Park, Castle Hill, Queensland, Central dense overcast, Charleville, Queensland, Charters Towers City, Queensland, Christmas Eve, City of Townsville, Cladding (construction), Climate of Australia, Coastal erosion, Coordinated Universal Time, Coral Sea, Cyclone Ada, Cyclone Tessi, Cyclone Yasi, Darwin, Northern Territory, Design load, Double Island Point, ESSA-8, Eye (cyclone), Eyewall replacement cycle, Fibre cement, Flash flood, Gastroenteritis, Google Books, Google News, Government of Australia, Government of Tasmania, Government of Western Australia, Great Palm Island, High-pressure area, Honiara, Horseshoe Bay, Queensland, InfoTrac, James Cook University, Joh Bjelke-Petersen, ..., Landfall, Lavarack Barracks, Lihou Reef National Nature Reserve, List of tropical cyclones, Looting, Mackay, Queensland, Magnetic Island, Maryborough, Queensland, Maximum sustained wind, Mitchell Highway, Nelly Bay, Queensland, North Queensland, Pallarenda, Queensland, Picnic Bay, Queensland, Premier of Queensland, Price gouging, Prime Minister of Australia, Queensland, Queensland Housing Commission, RAAF Base Townsville, Radius of maximum wind, Ridge (meteorology), Rollingstone, Queensland, Ross River (Queensland), Rowes Bay, Queensland, Royal Australian Air Force, Saunders Beach, Queensland, Sea surface temperature, Seawall, Solomon Islands, South West Queensland, State of emergency, Storm surge, Surface runoff, Sydney, Tarpaulin, Tasman Sea, The Salvation Army, The Strand, Townsville, Time in Australia, Toolakea, Queensland, Tornado, Townsville, Townsville Airport, Tropical cyclone, Trove, Warrego Highway, Warrego River, Weather radar, Weather satellite, William McMahon, Wind wave, YouTube, 1971–72 Australian region cyclone season, 1998 Townsville floods, 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment. Expand index (56 more) »

Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is a privately held online company based in Lehi, Utah.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Ancestry.com · See more »

Anemometer

An anemometer is a device used for measuring the speed of wind, and is also a common weather station instrument.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Anemometer · See more »

Anzac Memorial Park, Townsville

Anzac Memorial Park is a heritage-listed memorial and park at The Strand, Townsville CBD, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Anzac Memorial Park, Townsville · See more »

Arcadia, Queensland

Arcadia is suburb on Magnetic Island with the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Arcadia, Queensland · See more »

Australian Army

The Australian Army is Australia's military land force.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Australian Army · See more »

Australian dollar

The Australian dollar (sign: $; code: AUD) is the currency of the Commonwealth of Australia, including its external territories Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and Norfolk Island, as well as the independent Pacific Island states of Kiribati, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Australian dollar · See more »

Australian Geographer

Australian Geographer (The Australian Geographer until 1975) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Geographical Society of New South Wales since August 1928.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Australian Geographer · See more »

Balgal Beach, Queensland

Balgal Beach is a residential suburb and a beach in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Balgal Beach, Queensland · See more »

Beaufort scale

The Beaufort scale is an empirical measure that relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea or on land.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Beaufort scale · See more »

Bowen, Queensland

Bowen is a coastal town and locality in the Whitsunday Region on the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Bowen, Queensland · See more »

Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Brisbane · See more »

Building code

A building code (also building control or building regulations) is a set of rules that specify the standards for constructed objects such as buildings and nonbuilding structures.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Building code · See more »

Burdekin River

The Burdekin River is a river located in North and Far North Queensland, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Burdekin River · See more »

Bureau of Meteorology

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) is an Executive Agency of the Australian Government responsible for providing weather services to Australia and surrounding areas.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Bureau of Meteorology · See more »

Cape Pallarenda Conservation Park

The Cape Pallarenda Conservation Park is a protected conservation park located north-east of Townsville in the Far North region of Queensland, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Cape Pallarenda Conservation Park · See more »

Castle Hill, Queensland

Castle Hill is a suburb in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Castle Hill, Queensland · See more »

Central dense overcast

The central dense overcast, or CDO, of a tropical cyclone or strong subtropical cyclone is the large central area of thunderstorms surrounding its circulation center, caused by the formation of its eyewall.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Central dense overcast · See more »

Charleville, Queensland

Charleville is a town and a locality in the Shire of Murweh, Queensland, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Charleville, Queensland · See more »

Charters Towers City, Queensland

Charters Towers City is the central suburb of the town of Charters Towers in the Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Charters Towers City, Queensland · See more »

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve is the evening or entire day before Christmas Day, the festival commemorating the birth of Jesus.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Christmas Eve · See more »

City of Townsville

The City of Townsville is an Australian local government area (LGA) located in North Queensland, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and City of Townsville · See more »

Cladding (construction)

Cladding is the application of one material over another to provide a skin or layer.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Cladding (construction) · See more »

Climate of Australia

Australia's climate is governed largely by its size and by the hot, sinking air of the subtropical high pressure belt.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Climate of Australia · See more »

Coastal erosion

Coastal erosion is the wearing away of material from a coastal profile including the removal of beach, sand dunes, or sediment by wave action, tidal currents, wave currents, drainage or high winds (see also beach evolution).

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Coastal erosion · See more »

Coordinated Universal Time

No description.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Coordinated Universal Time · See more »

Coral Sea

The Coral Sea is a marginal sea of the South Pacific off the northeast coast of Australia, and classified as an interim Australian bioregion.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Coral Sea · See more »

Cyclone Ada

Severe Tropical Cyclone Ada was a small but intense tropical cyclone that severely impacted the Whitsunday Region of Queensland, Australia, in January 1970.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Cyclone Ada · See more »

Cyclone Tessi

Severe Tropical Cyclone Tessi was a small but potent tropical cyclone that caused extensive damage along the coast of North Queensland in early April 2000.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Cyclone Tessi · See more »

Cyclone Yasi

Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi was a powerful and destructive tropical cyclone that made landfall in northern Queensland, Australia, causing major damage to the affected areas.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Cyclone Yasi · See more »

Darwin, Northern Territory

Darwin is the capital city of the Northern Territory of Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Darwin, Northern Territory · See more »

Design load

In a general sense, the design load is the maximum amount of something a system is designed to handle or the maximum amount of something that the system can produce, which are very different meanings.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Design load · See more »

Double Island Point

Double Island Point is a coastal headland in Queensland, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Double Island Point · See more »

ESSA-8

ESSA-8 was a weather satellite launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on December 15, 1968, from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and ESSA-8 · See more »

Eye (cyclone)

The eye is a region of mostly calm weather at the center of strong tropical cyclones.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Eye (cyclone) · See more »

Eyewall replacement cycle

Eyewall replacement cycles, also called concentric eyewall cycles, naturally occur in intense tropical cyclones, generally with winds greater than, or major hurricanes (Category 3 or above).

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Eyewall replacement cycle · See more »

Fibre cement

Fibre cement is a composite building and construction material, used mainly in roofing and facade products because of its strength and durability.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Fibre cement · See more »

Flash flood

A flash flood is a rapid flooding of geomorphic low-lying areas: washes, rivers, dry lakes and basins.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Flash flood · See more »

Gastroenteritis

Gastroenteritis, also known as infectious diarrhea, is inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract -- the stomach and small intestine.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Gastroenteritis · See more »

Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print and by its codename Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Google Books · See more »

Google News

Google News is a news aggregator and app developed by Google.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Google News · See more »

Government of Australia

The Government of the Commonwealth of Australia (also referred to as the Australian Government, the Commonwealth Government, or the Federal Government) is the government of the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Government of Australia · See more »

Government of Tasmania

The Government of Tasmania, also referred to as the Tasmanian Government, is the executive authority of the state of Tasmania, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Government of Tasmania · See more »

Government of Western Australia

The Government of Western Australia, also referred to formally as Her Majesty's Government of Western Australia, or as the Western Australian Government or the West Australian Government, is the Australian state democratic administrative authority of Western Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Government of Western Australia · See more »

Great Palm Island

Great Palm Island, also known as Palm Island, or by the Aboriginal name Bwgcolman;Bindloss, Joseph (2002) page 330 is a tropical island with a resident community of about 2,000 people.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Great Palm Island · See more »

High-pressure area

A high-pressure area, high or anticyclone is a region where the atmospheric pressure at the surface of the planet is greater than its surrounding environment.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and High-pressure area · See more »

Honiara

Honiara is the capital city of the Solomon Islands, situated on the northwestern coast of Guadalcanal.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Honiara · See more »

Horseshoe Bay, Queensland

Horseshoe Bay is a village on Magnetic Island, Queensland, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Horseshoe Bay, Queensland · See more »

InfoTrac

InfoTrac is a family of full text databases of content from academic journals and general magazines, of which the majority are targeted to the English-speaking North American market.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and InfoTrac · See more »

James Cook University

James Cook University (JCU) is a public university and is the second oldest university in Queensland, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and James Cook University · See more »

Joh Bjelke-Petersen

Sir Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, (13 January 191123 April 2005) was an Australian politician.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Joh Bjelke-Petersen · See more »

Landfall

Landfall is the event of a storm moving over egregious land after being over water.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Landfall · See more »

Lavarack Barracks

Lavarack Barracks is a major Australian Army base located in Townsville, Queensland.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Lavarack Barracks · See more »

Lihou Reef National Nature Reserve

Lihou Reef National Nature Reserve is a former marine protected area covering an area of 8440 km2in the Australian Coral Sea Islands Territory that was incorporated into the new Coral Sea Commonwealth Marine Reserve in December 2012.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Lihou Reef National Nature Reserve · See more »

List of tropical cyclones

This is a list of tropical cyclones, subdivided by basin.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and List of tropical cyclones · See more »

Looting

Looting, also referred to as sacking, ransacking, plundering, despoiling, despoliation, and pillaging, is the indiscriminate taking of goods by force as part of a military or political victory, or during a catastrophe, such as war, natural disaster (where law and civil enforcement are temporarily ineffective), or rioting.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Looting · See more »

Mackay, Queensland

Mackay is a city and its centre suburb in the Mackay Region on the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Mackay, Queensland · See more »

Magnetic Island

Magnetic Island is an island offshore from the city of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Magnetic Island · See more »

Maryborough, Queensland

Maryborough is a city and a suburb in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Maryborough, Queensland · See more »

Maximum sustained wind

The maximum sustained wind associated with a tropical cyclone is a common indicator of the intensity of the storm.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Maximum sustained wind · See more »

Mitchell Highway

The Mitchell Highway is a state highway located in the central and south western regions of Queensland and the northern and central western regions of New South Wales in Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Mitchell Highway · See more »

Nelly Bay, Queensland

Nelly Bay is a village on Magnetic Island, and a suburb of the City of Townsville, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Nelly Bay, Queensland · See more »

North Queensland

North Queensland or the Northern Region is the northern part of the Australian state of Queensland that lies just south of Far North Queensland.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and North Queensland · See more »

Pallarenda, Queensland

Pallarenda is a beachside suburb of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Pallarenda, Queensland · See more »

Picnic Bay, Queensland

Picnic Bay refers to both a bay on the south-east corner of Magnetic Island (offshore from Townsville in Queensland, Australia) and the island's main town.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Picnic Bay, Queensland · See more »

Premier of Queensland

The Premier of Queensland is the head of government in the Australian state of Queensland.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Premier of Queensland · See more »

Price gouging

Price gouging is a pejorative term referring to when a seller spikes the prices of goods, services or commodities to a level much higher than is considered reasonable or fair, and is considered exploitative, potentially to an unethical extent.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Price gouging · See more »

Prime Minister of Australia

The Prime Minister of Australia (sometimes informally abbreviated to PM) is the head of government of Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Prime Minister of Australia · See more »

Queensland

Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Queensland · See more »

Queensland Housing Commission

The Queensland Housing Commission was a Queensland Government agency which was established in 1945 under the State Housing Act 1945.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Queensland Housing Commission · See more »

RAAF Base Townsville

RAAF Base Townsville (formerly RAAF Base Garbutt) is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) air base located in, west of Townsville in Queensland, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and RAAF Base Townsville · See more »

Radius of maximum wind

The radius of maximum wind (RMW) is the distance between the center of a cyclone and its band of strongest winds.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Radius of maximum wind · See more »

Ridge (meteorology)

A ridge is an elongated region of relatively high atmospheric pressure, the opposite of a trough.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Ridge (meteorology) · See more »

Rollingstone, Queensland

Rollingstone is a town and a locality in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Rollingstone, Queensland · See more »

Ross River (Queensland)

The Ross River is a river located in northern Queensland, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Ross River (Queensland) · See more »

Rowes Bay, Queensland

Rowes Bay is a suburb of the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Rowes Bay, Queensland · See more »

Royal Australian Air Force

The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), formed March 1921, is the aerial warfare branch of the Australian Defence Force (ADF).

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Royal Australian Air Force · See more »

Saunders Beach, Queensland

Saunders Beach is a residential suburb of the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Saunders Beach, Queensland · See more »

Sea surface temperature

Sea surface temperature (SST) is the water temperature close to the ocean's surface.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Sea surface temperature · See more »

Seawall

A seawall (or sea wall) is a form of coastal defence constructed where the sea, and associated coastal processes, impact directly upon the landforms of the coast.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Seawall · See more »

Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands is a sovereign country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania lying to the east of Papua New Guinea and northwest of Vanuatu and covering a land area of.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Solomon Islands · See more »

South West Queensland

South West Queensland is a remote region in the Australian state of Queensland which covers.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and South West Queensland · See more »

State of emergency

A state of emergency is a situation in which a government is empowered to perform actions that it would normally not be permitted.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and State of emergency · See more »

Storm surge

A storm surge, storm flood or storm tide is a coastal flood or tsunami-like phenomenon of rising water commonly associated with low pressure weather systems (such as tropical cyclones and strong extratropical cyclones), the severity of which is affected by the shallowness and orientation of the water body relative to storm path, as well as the timing of tides.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Storm surge · See more »

Surface runoff

Surface runoff (also known as overland flow) is the flow of water that occurs when excess stormwater, meltwater, or other sources flows over the Earth's surface.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Surface runoff · See more »

Sydney

Sydney is the state capital of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Sydney · See more »

Tarpaulin

A tarpaulin, or tarp, is a large sheet of strong, flexible, water-resistant or waterproof material, often cloth such as canvas or polyester coated with polyurethane, or made of plastics such as polyethylene.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Tarpaulin · See more »

Tasman Sea

The Tasman Sea (Māori: Te Tai-o-Rehua) is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean, situated between Australia and New Zealand.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Tasman Sea · See more »

The Salvation Army

The Salvation Army is a Protestant Christian church and an international charitable organisation structured in a quasi-military fashion.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and The Salvation Army · See more »

The Strand, Townsville

The Strand is a seaside foreshore located in Townsville, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and The Strand, Townsville · See more »

Time in Australia

Australia uses three main time zones: Australian Western Standard Time (AWST; UTC+08:00), Australian Central Standard Time (ACST; UTC+09:30), and Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST; UTC+10:00).

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Time in Australia · See more »

Toolakea, Queensland

Toolakea is a small residential beachside district to the north of Bluewater, approximately north-east of the Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Toolakea, Queensland · See more »

Tornado

A tornado is a rapidly rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Tornado · See more »

Townsville

Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Queensland, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Townsville · See more »

Townsville Airport

Townsville Airport is a major Australian regional airport that services the city of Townsville, Queensland.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Townsville Airport · See more »

Tropical cyclone

A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Tropical cyclone · See more »

Trove

Trove is an Australian online library database aggregator; a free faceted-search engine hosted by the National Library of Australia, in partnership with content providers including members of the National & State Libraries Australasia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Trove · See more »

Warrego Highway

The Warrego Highway is located in southern Queensland, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Warrego Highway · See more »

Warrego River

The Warrego River, an intermittent river that is part of the Darling catchment within the Murray–Darling basin, is located in the south west of Queensland and in the Orana region of New South Wales, Australia.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Warrego River · See more »

Weather radar

Weather radar, also called weather surveillance radar (WSR) and Doppler weather radar, is a type of radar used to locate precipitation, calculate its motion, and estimate its type (rain, snow, hail etc.). Modern weather radars are mostly pulse-Doppler radars, capable of detecting the motion of rain droplets in addition to the intensity of the precipitation.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Weather radar · See more »

Weather satellite

The weather satellite is a type of satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Weather satellite · See more »

William McMahon

Sir William McMahon, (23 February 190831 March 1988), was an Australian politician who served as the 20th Prime Minister of Australia, in office from 1971 to 1972 as leader of the Liberal Party.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and William McMahon · See more »

Wind wave

In fluid dynamics, wind waves, or wind-generated waves, are surface waves that occur on the free surface of bodies of water (like oceans, seas, lakes, rivers, canals, puddles or ponds).

New!!: Cyclone Althea and Wind wave · See more »

YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and YouTube · See more »

1971–72 Australian region cyclone season

The 1971–72 Australian region cyclone season was a very active tropical cyclone season.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and 1971–72 Australian region cyclone season · See more »

1998 Townsville floods

The 1998 Townsville and Thuringowa city floods began on 10 January 1998, the cities of Townsville and Thuringowa were hit by the worst floods in the cities' history.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and 1998 Townsville floods · See more »

1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment

1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (1 RAR) is a regular motorised infantry battalion of the Australian Army.

New!!: Cyclone Althea and 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment · See more »

Redirects here:

Cyclone Althea (1971).

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Althea

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »