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To: t4texas who wrote (5597)	2/13/2002 6:08:51 PM
From: Moominoid	Respond to of 33421

Australia gets "cyclones". Aus stretches from 10 south (equivalent to Costa Rica) to 45 south (Maine). The Queensland Coast and northern West Australian Coast - Kimberley and Pilbara are very prone to cyclones. Darwin - capital of the Northern Territory was wiped out by a Christmas Day cyclone in 1974. Due to the shape of the Aus coastliens and ocean currents, cyclones don't go very far south. So I live at 35-6 South - like North Carolina but cyclones don't reach down here (i.e. Sydney though I am 200 miles SW of Sydney inland and 2000 ft above sea level). They don't even get to Brisbane at about 28 South. However, in the summer Sydney and Canberra occasionally are often in the easterly trade wind stream which is essentially tropical. A couple of weeks back a tropical low in the Arafura Sea south of PNG extended ina trough all the way down to southern New South Wales west of Canberra. It pulled in a massive easterly air stream over the mountains and dumped record February rainfall on Canberra. Paradoxically this "tropical weather" was accompanied by daytime temperatures as low as 14 C (57F) in mid-summer (usually 28C or 82F here for the daily max in Feb).... David