Australia’s most powerful tropical cyclone in 8 years has lashed the country's sparsely populated northwestern coast with winds gusting to 180 miles per hour. Cyclone Ilsa was weakening quickly as it moved inland, and no injuries were immediately reported.
This satellite image taken by Himawari-8, a Japanese weather satellite, and provided by National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, shows cyclone Ilsa approaching Australia's west coast, Thursday, April 13, 2023. A severe tropical cyclone lashed the northwest Australian coast with strengthening winds and increasing rain Thursday as authorities warned the population to prepare for destructive gusts of up to 275 kph .
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s most powerful tropical cyclone in eight years lashed the nation’s sparsely populated northwest coast with winds gusting to 289 kilometers per hour Friday but was weakening fast and no injuries were immediately reported. Damage was still being assessed in the path of Ilsa, which made landfall in the early hours between the iron ore export town of Port Hedland and Wallal Downs Station, a 2,020-square-kilometer cattle ranch to the northeast.
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