Photo: Cyclone Glenda Lands on NW Aussie Coast

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Satellite imagery shows Cyclone Glenda just before the eye of the storm came ashore over the northwest Australian town of Onslow. The small coastal town is known locally as cyclone city, having been hit by four major cyclones in the past 80 years.

Image courtesy Australian Bureau of Meteorology/Processed from data received from the geostationary meteorological satellite MTSAT-1R operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency

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