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  1. The average life of a cyclone is 1 week, but they can last several weeks whilst out at sea.
  2. Cyclones need sea temperatures of 26.5 degrees Celsius or higher to form.
  3. Once cyclones make landfall, they usually last just a matter of hours before degenerating into tropical depressions, which often bring huge amounts of rain.
  4. After the eye passes, and the other side of the cyclone hits, the wind blows with equal strength but in the opposite direction.
  5. The winds of tropical cyclones, from the Southern Hemisphere, rotate clockwise, and hurricanes and typhoons in the Northern Hemisphere spin anti-clockwise.
  6. Cyclone Tracy was Australia's most destructive cyclone in termsof damage to houses and buildings.
  7. Cyclone Mahina, which hit north Queensland on 4 March 1899, was a category 5 cyclone, and resulted in the greatest death toll of any natural disaster in Australia.
  8. Cyclones are assigned names, which are picked from a list.
  9. Cyclone season in Australia is between November and April, although cyclones have been known to occur in May; in the northern hemisphere, hurricane/typhoon season is between June and November.
  10. Cyclone intensity is measured by wind speed, and cyclones are accorded a category based on the following:
  • Category 1 - gales with gusts to 125 km/h
  • Category 2 - destructive winds with gusts of 125 -170 km/h
  • Category 3 - very destructive winds with gusts of 170 - 225 km/h
  • Category 4 - very destructive winds with gusts of 225 - 280 km/h
  • Category 5 - very destructive winds with gusts exceeding 280 km/h
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