and "cyclogenesis," which describes the formation of cyclones—low-pressure systems that rotate counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere. While many bomb cyclones form over the ocean ...

in the Southern Hemisphere, cyclones spin clockwise (hurricanes spin counterclockwise). Cyclones can strike eastern Africa, primarily Madagascar, as well as the western, northern and eastern ...

They form in almost all ocean basins. A typical cyclone is accompanied by thunderstorms, and in the Northern Hemisphere, a counterclockwise circulation of winds near the earth's surface (clockwise ...

It circulates in a counterclockwise direction in the northern hemisphere and ... the most intense bomb cyclones form over oceans. Precipitation can be prodigious. When water vapor changes into ...

"You need certain winds coming from across the Northern hemisphere, you need certain ... or three bursts in the whole season," he says. As cyclones are more likely to develop when a monsoon ...

To put that in perspective, New Orleans is on the same latitude (or at least the northern hemisphere equivalent) as Coffs Harbour on the New South Wales Mid North Coast. As most Aussie know, Coffs ...

A presenter will position three buckets of water – one in the Northern Hemisphere, one in the Southern Hemisphere, and one directly on the equator – and let the water drain out. Tourists are shown ...

the body of water between the Northern Territory and the northern parts of Queensland, and in the Coral Sea off Queensland's northeast coast. Either one would be Queensland's first cyclone of the ...