The Australian state of Queensland is on alert for flooding in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Oswald.

BBC: Australian state of Queensland braces for flooding

It will be the first tropical cyclone to make landfall in Japan since Typhoon Fitow in September 2007.

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Last month, at least five people were killed in Tamil Nadu after a tropical cyclone swept across the state.

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The rain was brought by Tropical Cyclone Oswald, which is now affecting the northern part of New South Wales.

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"We're on the leading edge of a multidecade period of more intense tropical cyclone activity, " says Robert Hartwig, III'schief economist.

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Secretary-General Ban-Ki moon continues to conflate post-tropical cyclone Sandy with global warming.

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He's a meteorologist and the tropical cyclone program manager of the National Weather Service headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, with us by phone now from his office there.

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Comprehensive global analyses of tropical cyclone strength show no change.

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And then there was Superstorm Sandy, a late October post-tropical cyclone that killed more than 110 people in the United States and nearly 70 more in the Caribbean and Canada.

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While that argument makes the alarmist blogs and MSNBC, it neglects that, everything else being equal, if hurricanes are becoming rainier, they must be getting stronger, as the fuel that drives the kinetic whirl of the tropical cyclone is the heat released by the condensation of water.

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New Zealand's high commissioner in Apia, Nick Hurley, said the cyclone was bigger than other tropical storms he had experienced in the region, and its strength was unexpected.

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The early tropical season, June-August, may favor cyclone development in the western Atlantic basin, which can then threaten the Southeast coast.

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