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Severe Tropical Cyclone Fina intensifies to category three system as it closes in on Darwin

22 novembre 2025 à 03:03

It is the first cyclone of that strength in Australian waters in November in 20 years, with sustained winds of 120km an hour

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Severe Tropical Cyclone Fina has intensified to a category three system as it closes in on Darwin today, making it the first cyclone of that strength in Australian waters in November in 20 years.

Darwin was expected to see the worst of Fina’s effects on Saturday, as the system advanced through the Van Diemen Gulf. It would be closest to the city at about 9pm.

Three-metre giant oarfish, ‘palace messenger’ of doom, washes up on Tasmanian beach

The Guardian

Par :Petra Stock

21 novembre 2025 à 08:48

The enormous, serpentine fish, regarded in Japanese folklore as a herald of disaster, usually live deep below the surface and are only sighted when sick or dying

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It was a beautiful warm day in north-west Tasmania when a fish with a reputation as a harbinger of doom washed ashore.

Tony Cheesman, who lives in the seaside town of Penguin, was walking his two dogs, Ronan and Custard, along the beach at Preservation Bay on Friday morning when something silvery and surrounded by gulls grabbed his attention.