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'Sandy' removed from hurricane name list

April 12, 2013 08:31
The destruction caused by Hurricane Sandy has prompted the World Meteorological Organization to remove the name from a rotating list of storm titles, the UN agency said Friday. "Sandy" will be replaced by "Sara" after meteorologists decided that the future use of the name could be upsetting. Sandy tore through the Caribbean before slamming into the east coast of the United States in late October, killing nearly 300 people in the region and resulted in economic losses of more than $75 billion in the United States alone.

Tropical cyclone forms off Australia's east coast

March 7, 2013 19:00
SYDNEY, March 8 (Reuters) - A tropical cyclone that has formed 1,000 km (600 miles) off Australia's northeast coast is likely head further out to sea, Australia's weather bureau said on Friday, sparing the region's coal and sugar industries and coastal communities. Tropical Cyclone Sandra is currently a category one storm, the lowest on a one to five scale, but is expected to strengthen and head southeast through the Coral Sea in the direction of New Caledonia.

Comet Pan-STARRS dresses up night skies, visible with naked eye

March 5, 2013 14:46
* Comet is now inside Mercury's orbit heading toward sun * Heat from sun creating bright tail * Visible in Northern Hemisphere starting Thursday evening By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 5 (Reuters) - The first of two comets heading toward the sun this year made its closest approach to Earth on Tuesday and will be visible in the Northern Hemisphere beginning on Thursday.

Six killed, three missing in Madagascar cyclone

February 2, 2013 15:15
Six people have died and three are missing after tropical cyclone Felleng raged through Madagascar, the national disaster management agency said Saturday. "Felleng has gone, it's now 500 kilometres (300 miles) east of (southern) Fort Dauphin. We have accounted for six deaths, three people missing and about 800 people affected in the capital" Antananarivo, Raymond Randriatahina, the agency's executive secretary, told AFP by telephone.

Madagascar cyclone kills five

January 31, 2013 13:00
Five people were killed as pounding rain and high winds from tropical cyclone Felleng battered Madagascar on Thursday, officials said. "Four people died after a house collapsed in Antananarivo and one person drowned in Maroantsetra," in the north, Raymond Randriatahina, an official with the national disaster management agency, told AFP. The category three tropical cyclone barrelled along the island's east coast, around 200 kilometres (125 miles) from land, bringing gusts that reached 250 kilometres (155 miles) an hour.
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