Queensland, Australia

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he strongest winds are gales with gust to 125 km/h. Category two means minor house damage, the strongest winds are destructive winds with gusts of 125-170 km/h. Category three means there will be roof and structural damage, and very destructive winds with gust of 170-225 km/h. Category four will have significant roofing loss and structural damage, with gust reaching 225-280 km/h. The most severe category is category five, which means there will be extremely dangerous with widespread destruction, and winds reaching more than 280 km/h. The winds are measure by the Beaufort scale.
Even with the floods and cyclones, there are still times were Queensland suffers from a drought. During April to September the east coast of Queensland suffers from severe rainfall deficiencies. During January to September central Queensland suffers from severe rainfall deficiencies. In 1991 and 1995 Queensland ran into a drought. During these times they had the lowest rainfall levels on record.
Even with the rain and droughts, Queensland is well known for its climate. In Brisbane the average temperature is sixty-nine degrees Fahrenheit. The average high is seventy-eight degrees Fahrenheit and the average low is sixty degrees Fahrenheit. The month of December has the highest record temperature of one hundred and three degrees Fahrenheit, while the lowest was in June with thirty-three degrees Fahrenheit. The tableland and uplands are cooler than the coast during the winter. In Celsius the tableland and uplands can have the max daily temperature of twenty-eight degrees Celsius and the minimum is seventeen degrees Celsius. The coat has a max temperature of thirty-one degrees Celsius and a minimum of twenty-three degrees Celsius. The coast of Queensland has an average humidity of seventy-eight percent in the summer. It can reach to the nineties though. Brisbane’s average humidity is fifty-four percent; the highest is sixty-five percent.
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