Cyclone Les, the Glossary
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
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.
- 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
Australia Day
Australia Day is the official national day of Australia.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is the national broadcaster of Australia.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Cape York Peninsula
Cape York Peninsula is a peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia.
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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.
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Daly River, Northern Territory
Daly River is a town adjacent to the Daly River in the Northern Territory of Australia.
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Darwin, Northern Territory
Darwin (Larrakia) is the capital city of the Northern Territory, Australia.
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Emergency Management Australia
Emergency Management Australia (EMA) was an Australian Government body responsible for emergency management coordination.
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Gastroenteritis
Gastroenteritis, also known as infectious diarrhea, is an inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract including the stomach and intestine.
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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.
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Gulf of Carpentaria
The Gulf of Carpentaria is a sea off the northern coast of Australia.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Katherine District Hospital
Katherine District Hospital is a district public hospital servicing the Katherine Region in the Northern Territory, Australia.
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Katherine River
Katherine River is located in the Northern Territory, Australia.
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Katherine, Northern Territory
Katherine is a town in the Northern Territory of Australia.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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Queensland
Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.
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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.
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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.
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Stuart Highway
Stuart Highway is a major Australian highway.
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The Age
The Age is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854.
Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western third of the land area of the Australian continent.
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1997–98 Australian region cyclone season
The 1997–98 Australian region cyclone season was a slightly below average tropical cyclone season.
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See also
1997–98 Australian region cyclone season
1998 disasters in Australia
- 1998 Esso Longford fire
- 1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race
- 1998 Sydney water crisis
- 1998 Townsville floods
- Cyclone Les
- Linton Bushfire
Category 2 Australian region cyclones
- Cyclone Ann
- Cyclone Fergus
- Cyclone Grant
- Cyclone Helen (2007)
- Cyclone Imogen
- Cyclone Jasmine
- Cyclone Les
- Cyclone Nigel
- Cyclone Peter
- Cyclone Ruby
- Cyclone Seth
- Cyclone Steve
- Cyclone Tiffany
- List of Category 2 Australian region tropical cyclones
January 1998 events in Australia
- 1998 Townsville floods
- Cyclone Les
Tropical cyclones in Queensland
- 1949 Central Queensland cyclone
- Cyclone Ada
- Cyclone Aivu
- Cyclone Alessia
- Cyclone Althea
- Cyclone Ann
- Cyclone Audrey
- Cyclone Beni
- Cyclone Debbie
- Cyclone Fran
- Cyclone Gillian
- Cyclone Ita
- Cyclone Jasper
- Cyclone Kathy
- Cyclone Kirrily
- Cyclone Lam
- Cyclone Larry
- Cyclone Leonta
- Cyclone Les
- Cyclone Mahina
- Cyclone Marcia
- Cyclone Monica
- Cyclone Nathan (2015)
- Cyclone Nina
- Cyclone Niran
- Cyclone Nora
- Cyclone Oswald
- Cyclone Peter
- Cyclone Rewa
- Cyclone Seth
- Cyclone Sigma
- Cyclone Steve
- Cyclone Tasha
- Cyclone Tessi
- Cyclone Tiffany
- Cyclone Ului
- Cyclone Winston
- Cyclone Yasi
- Cyclones Judy and Kevin
- Cyclones Katrina and Victor–Cindy
- Cyclones Rona and Frank
- Tropical Low Fletcher
Tropical cyclones in Western Australia
- Cyclone Alby
- Cyclone Alessia
- Cyclone Carlos
- Cyclone Chris
- Cyclone Christine
- Cyclone Clare
- Cyclone Emma (2006)
- Cyclone George
- Cyclone Glenda
- Cyclone Gwenda
- Cyclone Heidi
- Cyclone Herbie
- Cyclone Ilona
- Cyclone Ilsa
- Cyclone Inigo
- Cyclone Joan
- Cyclone John
- Cyclone Kelvin
- Cyclone Lam
- Cyclone Laurence
- Cyclone Les
- Cyclone Lua
- Cyclone Marcus
- Cyclone Narelle
- Cyclone Olwyn
- Cyclone Orson
- Cyclone Rosita
- Cyclone Rusty
- Cyclone Sam
- Cyclone Savannah
- Cyclone Seroja
- Cyclone Stan (2016)
- Cyclone Steve
- Cyclone Thelma
- Cyclone Vance
- Cyclones Katrina and Victor–Cindy
- List of Western Australia tropical cyclones
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Les
Also known as 1998 Katherine Floods, Cyclone Les (1998), Tropical Cyclone Les.