en.unionpedia.org

Cyclone Les, the Glossary

Index Cyclone Les

Tropical Cyclone Les was a Category 2 storm in the 1997–98 Australian region cyclone season, which affected the Northern Territory of Australia in January 1998.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 31 relations: Australia Day, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Defence Force, Australian Government, Bureau of Meteorology, Cape York Peninsula, Charles Darwin University, Daly River, Northern Territory, Darwin, Northern Territory, Emergency Management Australia, Gastroenteritis, Great Australian Bight, Gulf of Carpentaria, High-pressure area, Infrastructure Australia, John Howard, Katherine District Hospital, Katherine River, Katherine, Northern Territory, Low-pressure area, Monsoon, Northern Territory, Northern Territory Government, Pressure gradient, Queensland, RAAF Base Tindal, Royal Australian Air Force, Stuart Highway, The Age, Western Australia, 1997–98 Australian region cyclone season.

  2. 1997–98 Australian region cyclone season
  3. 1998 disasters in Australia
  4. Category 2 Australian region cyclones
  5. January 1998 events in Australia
  6. Tropical cyclones in Queensland
  7. Tropical cyclones in Western Australia

Australia Day

Australia Day is the official national day of Australia.

See Cyclone Les and Australia Day

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.

See Cyclone Les and Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Defence Force

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) is the military organisation responsible for the defence of the Commonwealth of Australia and its national interests.

See Cyclone Les and Australian Defence Force

Australian Government

The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government or the Federal Government, is the national executive government of the Commonwealth of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy.

See Cyclone Les and Australian Government

Bureau of Meteorology

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM or BoM) is an executive agency of the Australian Government responsible for providing weather services to Australia and surrounding areas.

See Cyclone Les and Bureau of Meteorology

Cape York Peninsula

Cape York Peninsula is a peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia.

See Cyclone Les and Cape York Peninsula

Charles Darwin University

Charles Darwin University (CDU) is an Australian public university with a main campus in Darwin and eight satellite campuses in some metropolitan and regional areas.

See Cyclone Les and Charles Darwin University

Daly River, Northern Territory

Daly River is a town adjacent to the Daly River in the Northern Territory of Australia.

See Cyclone Les and Daly River, Northern Territory

Darwin, Northern Territory

Darwin (Larrakia) is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia.

See Cyclone Les and Darwin, Northern Territory

Emergency Management Australia

Emergency Management Australia (EMA) was an Australian Government body responsible for emergency management coordination.

See Cyclone Les and Emergency Management Australia

Gastroenteritis

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

See Cyclone Les and Gastroenteritis

Great Australian Bight

The Great Australian Bight is a large oceanic bight, or open bay, off the central and western portions of the southern coastline of mainland Australia.

See Cyclone Les and Great Australian Bight

Gulf of Carpentaria

The Gulf of Carpentaria is a sea off the northern coast of Australia.

See Cyclone Les and Gulf of Carpentaria

High-pressure area

A high-pressure area, high, or anticyclone, is an area near the surface of a planet where the atmospheric pressure is greater than the pressure in the surrounding regions.

See Cyclone Les and High-pressure area

Infrastructure Australia

Infrastructure Australia is an independent statutory body providing independent research and advice to all levels of government and industry on projects and reforms relating to investment in Australian infrastructure.

See Cyclone Les and Infrastructure Australia

John Howard

John Winston Howard (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007.

See Cyclone Les and John Howard

Katherine District Hospital

Katherine District Hospital is a district public hospital servicing the Katherine Region in the Northern Territory, Australia.

See Cyclone Les and Katherine District Hospital

Katherine River

Katherine River is located in the Northern Territory, Australia.

See Cyclone Les and Katherine River

Katherine, Northern Territory

Katherine is a town in the Northern Territory of Australia.

See Cyclone Les and Katherine, Northern Territory

Low-pressure area

In meteorology, a low-pressure area, low area or low is a region where the atmospheric pressure is lower than that of surrounding locations.

See Cyclone Les and Low-pressure area

Monsoon

A monsoon is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscillation of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) between its limits to the north and south of the equator.

See Cyclone Les and Monsoon

Northern Territory

The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an Australian internal territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.

See Cyclone Les and Northern Territory

Northern Territory Government

The Government of the Northern Territory of Australia, also referred to as the Northern Territory Government, the Government of the Northern Territory or simply the NT Government, is the executive branch of the Northern Territory.

See Cyclone Les and Northern Territory Government

Pressure gradient

In hydrodynamics and hydrostatics, the pressure gradient (typically of air but more generally of any fluid) is a physical quantity that describes in which direction and at what rate the pressure increases the most rapidly around a particular location.

See Cyclone Les and Pressure gradient

Queensland

Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.

See Cyclone Les and Queensland

RAAF Base Tindal

RAAF Base Tindal is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) military air base and civil aviation airfield located east southeast of the town of Katherine, Northern Territory in Australia.

See Cyclone Les and RAAF Base Tindal

Royal Australian Air Force

The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is the principal aerial warfare force of Australia, a part of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) along with the Royal Australian Navy and the Australian Army.

See Cyclone Les and Royal Australian Air Force

Stuart Highway

Stuart Highway is a major Australian highway.

See Cyclone Les and Stuart Highway

The Age

The Age is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854.

See Cyclone Les and The Age

Western Australia

Western Australia (WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western third of the land area of the Australian continent.

See Cyclone Les and Western Australia

1997–98 Australian region cyclone season

The 1997–98 Australian region cyclone season was a slightly below average tropical cyclone season.

See Cyclone Les and 1997–98 Australian region cyclone season

See also

1997–98 Australian region cyclone season

1998 disasters in Australia

Category 2 Australian region cyclones

January 1998 events in Australia

Tropical cyclones in Queensland

Tropical cyclones in Western Australia

References

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

Also known as 1998 Katherine Floods, Cyclone Les (1998), Tropical Cyclone Les.