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News: Cyclone Harold strikes South Pacific island of Vanuatu.
Facts:
- Type: Tropical Cyclone
- Areas affected: Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, and Tonga
Additional facts:
Tropical Cyclones:
- These are storms that originate and intensify over warm tropical oceans. They are intense low pressure areas with very strong winds circulating around it in anti-clockwise direction in the Northern Hemisphere and in clockwise direction in the Southern Hemisphere.
- Tropical Cyclones are known by different names in different regions:
- Cyclones in Indian Ocean
- Hurricanes in Atlantic
- Typhoons in Western Pacific in South China Sea
- Willy-Willies in Western Australia
