A severe tropical cyclone lashed northwestern Australia Friday bringing the strongest winds the country has ever recorded, but officials said towns and cities appeared to have escaped the worst of the storm. ManilaBulletin
Tropical Cyclone Ilsa made landfall in the early hours as a category five storm -- the strongest on the scale -- near the sparsely-populated town of Pardoo, about 19 hours' drive northeast of Perth.
Ilsa also packed an Australian record for the strongest sustained wind speeds over a 10-minute period -- averaging 218 kilometres per hour."It just shows how strong this system was as it approached the coast," Smith told reporters. The world's biggest iron ore-shipping hub reopened Friday after it was forced to close earlier in the week as the cyclone gathered pace above the Indian Ocean.The cyclone has since been downgraded to a category two, but authorities remain wary as it barrels inland towards several remote Aboriginal communities and a major gold mine.
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