'Ilsa' hits Australia with record wind speeds

By Agence France-Presse

Apr 15, 2023 12:14 am

SYDNEY: A severe tropical cyclone lashed northwestern Australia Friday with the strongest sustained winds the country has ever recorded, but officials said towns and cities appeared to have escaped the worst of the storm.

Tropical Cyclone 'Ilsa' was upgraded to a category five storm — the strongest on the scale — shortly before making landfall near the sparsely-populated town of Pardoo, about 19 hours' drive northeast of Perth.

CATEGORY 5 STORM The Sydney Opera House is seen amid rain in this file photo taken on March 1, 2022. A severe tropical cyclone lashed northwestern Australia on Friday, April 14, 2023, with the strongest sustained winds the country has ever recorded, but officials said towns and cities appeared to have escaped the worst of the storm. XINHUA PHOTO

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