Cyclone Marcus: Curious Darwin answers your weird and wonderful questions about the storm
Top Enders have survived the most damaging storm to hit the Darwin region since Cyclone Tracy flattened it over 40 years ago. "Marcus" was next on the Bureau of Meteorology's list of 104 possible cyclone names. Male names were added to the list in 1975 after Cyclone Tracy — during International Women's Year — when then Australian Science minister Bill Morrison reportedly declared that both sexes "should bear the odium of the devastation caused by cyclones". "Green ants nest in leafy nests and basically they don't have any of them left," said Alan Anderson, a professorial fellow at Charles Darwin University. in urban environments often have really high-pitched whistling sounds, and that's probably your classic sound, that's the wind — really strong wind — interacting with buildings," he said.
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