PERTH (Reuters) - Australia's Port Hedland, one of the world's largest export terminals for iron ore, is preparing to shut down ahead of Tropical Cyclone Lua, a port official said on Thursday.

Tropical cyclone 14S (Irina) is dissipating to the south of the Mozambique Channel…located approximately 290 NM southeast of Maputo, Mozambique (Dissipating tropical depression…35 knot sustained winds) - Final Warning Tropical cyclone 16S (Koji)...

090300Z POSITION NEAR 29.5S 39.0E.TROPICAL CYCLONE (TC) 14S (IRINA), LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 415 NM EAST-SOUTHEAST OF MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE, HAS TRACKED WEST-NORTHWESTWARD AT 04 KNOTS OVER THE PAST SIX HOURS. THE CURRENT POSITION IS BASED ON A 082220Z TRMM ...

Footage of Durban's beachfront during tropical cyclone Irina on Sunday 4th March 2012. Filmed by Anton Herrington, Tekweni TV Productions. Go to www.satvchannel.com for other videos on South Africa.- South Africa TV Channel

Tropical Cyclone Irina (14S), located approximately 90 nm east-southeast of Maputo, Mozambique, has tracked southwestward at 06 knots over the past six hours. Maximum significant wave height is 18 feet. Animated infrared satellite imagery shows that TC 14S is regenerating deep convection and turning back into the Mozambique Channel. Despite ...

(Click on images for larger view.)031500Z POSITION NEAR 25.7S 35.0E.TROPICAL CYCLONE (TC) 14S (IRINA), LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 150 NM EAST OF MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE, HAS TRACKED WESTWARD AT 13 KNOTS OVER THE PAST SIX HOURS. ANIMATED MULTISPECTRAL SATELLITE I...

Source: Content partner // Tropical Storm Risk Tropical storm Irina is forecast to strike Madagascar as a tropical cyclone at about 12:00 GMT on 1 March.Data supplied by theUS Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Centersuggest that the point of ...

Source: Content partner // Tropical Storm Risk Tropical storm Irina is forecast to strike Mozambique as a tropical cyclone at about 12:00 GMT on 3 March.Data supplied by theUS Navy and Air Force Joint Typhoon Warning Centersuggest that the point of landfallwill benear23.3 S,36.0 E.Irina is expected to ...

Tropical cyclone 14S (Irina) is active in the Mozambique Channel…located approximately 270 NM northwest of Antananarivo, Madagascar (Strengthening tropical storm…35 knot sustained winds) PDC Global Hazards Atlas displaying 3 hour precipitation ...

[IFRC] Quelimane - Following the cyclone and floods that ravaged Quelimane town and its outskirts, health officials have ...

WTXS21 PGTW 260130MSGID/GENADMIN/NAVMARFCSTCEN PEARL HARBOR HI/JTWC//SUBJ/TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION ALERT// RMKS/ 1. FORMATION OF A SIGNIFICANT TROPICAL CYCLONE IS POSSIBLE WITHIN 200 NM EITHER SIDE OF A LINE FROM 13.7S 53.3E TO 14.9S 44.0E ...

. Cyclone Giovanna hit Madagascar, pounding the Indian Ocean island with strong winds and heavy rain and killing at least one person. At least 31 people were killed and 250,000 left homeless after Tropical Cyclone Giovanna ripped across Madagascar l...

(Click on image for larger view.)Although rain rarely falls in the extremely arid Sahara Desert, the skies are not always sunny. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s Terra satellite captured this spectacular image o...

By Jim Andrews, Senior Meteorologist Feb 23, 2012; 9:12 AM ET The southwestern Indian Ocean could see a new tropical cyclone by the end of the week. Were a cyclone to form in the area, it could pose a threat to Madagascar, which was dealt a dest...

Evidence of severe flooding in Madagascar, in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Giovanna, was a sediment plume at the mouth of the Onibe River.

200300Z POSITION NEAR 26.4S 53.7E.TROPICAL CYCLONE 12S (GIOVANNA), LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 455 NM SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR, HAS TRACKED EASTWARD AT 14 KNOTS OVER THE PAST SIX HOURS. ANIMATED INFRARED (IR) SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS THE OR...

Giovanna has once again changed direction and also increased in intensity. Giovanna is now a Cat. 2 storm. Like I indicated before, Giovanna is one of the weirdest storms I have observed in the South Indian Ocean. What will happen in the next 12 hou...

Image:  Damages post-Giovanna (Click on image for larger view.)I. HIGHLIGHTS/KEY PRIORITIES· Giovanna made landfall on the eastern coast of Madagascar at 2.00 a.m. on 14 February 2012 as a category 4 tropical cyclone and exited the western coast ...

Image: NOAA18 01H08 SAST (Nic Cronje, Nelspruit) Click on image for larger view.180300Z POSITION NEAR 26.4S 43.5E.TROPICAL CYCLONE 12S (GIOVANNA), LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 495 NM SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR, HAS TRACKED SOUTHEASTWARD AT 03...

Image: NOAA18 13H49 SAST (Nic Cronje, Nelspruit) Click on image for larger view.171500Z POSITION NEAR 25.8S 43.2E.TROPICAL CYCLONE 12S (GIOVANNA), LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 445 NM SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF ANTANANARIVO, MADAGASCAR, HAD TRACKED EAST- SOUTH EASTWAR...

I had a look at this afternoon's satellite images and forecast models. I might have been correct with my earlier prediction that Giovanna is tracking south eastwards towards southern Madagascar and not towards Mozambique as many forecasters h...

Image: CIMSS (Click on image for larger view.)There is still no consensus amongst weather forecasters as to which path Giovanna will follow and whether it will bring torrential rain over parts of Mozambique and possible heavy rain in parts o...

By CARE International An intense tropical cyclone named Giovanna made landfall on the east coast of Madagascar yesterday morning. “Assessments have yet to begin and we have very little data at the present time. But if we look at the strength of the s...

Image: NOAA18 (Nic Cronje, Nelspruit) Click on image for larger view.)There is currently a discrepancy as to the future track of Cyclone Giovanna over the Mozambque Channel. The Joint Typhoon Warning Centre report (12 & 15Z on Tuesday 14 February 2012...

Tropical Cyclone Giovanna engulfs Madagascar, where it came ashore with a fury in mid-February 2012.

14.02.2012 - 11:03:29 - Tropical Storm event happened in India ocean / Madagascar.

Tropical cyclone Giovanna hits the island of Madagascar, with winds of up to 194km (120mph) ripping up trees and pylons - and meteorologists warn the damage could be severe.

Visible image from NASA's Terra satellite of Tropical Cyclone Giovanna approaching Madagascar, taken at 6:35 UTC Monday February 13, 2012 TC Giovanna crossed the east coast of Madagascar overnight with peak gusts estimated in excess of 200kmh with very heavy rain. The inland capital Antananarivo will be spared the worst...

(Click on image for larger view.)Cyclone Giovanna to make landfall in MadagascarOn Monday, February 13th, Tropical cyclone Giovanna, located approximately 250NM east of Antananarivo, Madagascar, had tracked West-South Westward at 12 knots over the past...

[IRIN] Johannesburg - A category four tropical storm, Cyclone Giovanna, is expected to make landfall on 14 February ...