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North Queensland residents are battening down the hatches, with a tropical cyclone strengthening to a category two storm and shifting direction a second time.
The Bureau of Meteorology says Cyclone Kimi was barrelling south about 195km north of Townsville at 1pm AEST on Monday.
Kimi is set to slow and stall between Hinchinbrook Island and Townsville and potentially weaken before crossing the coast on Tuesday.
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However, forecasters warn it could still make landfall as a category two storm, packing winds up to 150km/h, on Monday night or on Tuesday. Considerable uncertainty remains with the future movement of the system, and a category two coastal crossing between Hinchinbrook Island and Townsville tonight or on Tuesday remains possible, the bureau says in an alert.
Meet Shravan Regret Iyer: United Nation’s World Meteorological Organisation 2021 award winner
Fresh off the feat of winning a UN contest, Shravan Regret Iyer is happy his pic will be used to address climate change
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BENGALURU: Awards are not new to filmmaker and photographer Shravan Regret Iyer. But his most recent win, the United Nation’s World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) 2021 award, is something special for him. Iyer, a former journalist and a documentary filmmaker from Bengaluru, captured a dramatic weather event in Morondava in Madagascar. “I took this photograph in the island nation of Madagascar in Africa during the rainy season.
Environmental News For The Week Ending 13December 2019
This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at
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New US Covid cases were at a record 247,737 on Friday on the worldometers site that I watch; that would be nearly 40% of all the new infections reported worldwide on that day as per that site.However, the Johns Hopkins dashboard is showing a record 1,489,000 new Covid infections worldwide on that date, more than double any previous one day total..I have to assume that s in error, and my best guess would be that somehow the data was entered twice, and they ll eventually correct it.Regardless, whatever the a