Click here for an impressive satellite imagery animation of Cyclone Yasi, currently approaching the East Australia Coast: [url= http://www.goes.noaa.gov/sohemi/sohemiloops/shirgmscol.html ]'Hundred Year Storm'[/url]
This promises to be one hell of a blow in a day or two... my family is right in the firing line (Townsville) and I'm a long way from home and can't help... worrying times 🙁
Wow, from my limited knowledge of meterology that looks like a big sod of a storm. Austrailia is having a crappy time of it at the moment. Hope it all works out.
It's got the potential to be one of the biggest in recorded history... 500km wide and an eye of around 100km, winds potentially up to 300km/hr, 'tis a big one for sure...
Pheww...I was due to move to that area with my family in 3 weeks.
Due to various reasons we pulled the plug on it last saturday!
[url= http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/article/2011/02/01/204261_news.html ]Townsville News[/url]
My brother lives in MacKay, wonder how he'll get on, when's it due to hit?
Friends in Jakarta report it as being 'a bit windy'!
Have friends in townsville, she works or did for the Mike "something i forge"t dive company met my wife on Magnetic Island we were staying at Jeff's place, i also met a very lovely girl called Kelly ! ah happy days
I've got a waterfront house in Cairns. Sat out a few cyclones in it so far.
Wonder if it'll still be there when I go over next month 🙂
Based on the current modelling bits of it might yes !
Some pretty awesome satellite pics coming out now and it looks HUGE and scary. Not a good place to be. To be fair 200kmh+ winds are just a minor inconvenience to us Wellingtonians 😉
Australia is getting it bad, first severe flooding and now this. You also have 17 volcanoes that are known about erupting including 3 in japan.
The lightning in this photo shows a huge amount of energy being released.
It's like some kind of build up, in the earths core is destabilizing the weather and causing seismic activity.
Good luck to everyone over there, the aussies are loud and a bit wild, but a very good natured bunch.
My brother lives in MacKay, wonder how he'll get on, when's it due to hit?
Currently expected to make landfall around 1am AEST 3rd Feb... so around 3pm tomorrow afternoon UK time...
Mackay's quite a way south, so it should just pick up some more rain, the threat region is more north (Townsville-Cairns area)
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I've got a waterfront house in Cairns. Sat out a few cyclones in it so far.Wonder if it'll still be there when I go over next month
Hope you've got someone securing that property for you mate... and decent insurance! as NZcol says, based on the current modelling it's gotta be in a fair bit of risk!
The North hasn't had a storm like this in quite a while, so odds are the one's you've experienced were fairly small? This looks to be a different beasty!
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No worries mate, She'll be right.
It does look on track to make landfall as a Cat4, which is not good at all, plus the storm surge could be very bad indeed.
One hell of a beast, developing quick and sucking in tons of moisture, so there will be lots to dump back down again!
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..Hope you've got someone securing that property for you mate... and decent insurance!..The North hasn't had a storm like this in quite a while, so odds are the one's you've experienced were fairly small? This looks to be a different beasty!
Sat out quite a few of the small ones, been in the eye of 2. Was there for Larry too.
House is effectively uninsured because you can't get it for a storm surge which will do more damage than wind. Can't ask anyone to take a look - they're all being evacuated.
In many ways I'm glad my family aren't in there at the moment, sooner lose the house.
I'll probably be the proud owner of a building site shortly - if the land isn't scoured away by the sea 🙂
The good news is that it looks like Australia's drought problem is fixed.
The good news is that it looks like Australia's drought problem is fixed.
And how... it never rains but it pours eh?
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!
Never a better poem penned about Australia, brings a shiver to my spine and a tear to my eye everytime I read it!
Full version here if you're not familiar with it! [url= http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/show/21197-Dorothea-Mackellar-My-Country ]My Country by Dorothy Mackellar[/url]
It's getting more interesting...
Bureau of Meteorology - "...Seas above 14 metres. Confused swell increasing above 12 metres..."
Yeah my in-laws are over there right now and their campervan is smack ban in the middle of the path of this thing!
And, bizarrely, my own folks were out in Brisbane last month when all the floods were happening... are we jinxed?! 😯
100 year floods and 100 year cyclones are not something that Phil chap mentions when talking about Australia in that Relocation Down Under programme he is currently doing on Channel 4 😉
Hope your family stay safe 🙂
This thing is a monster
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They are expecting winds up to 290km/h shortly
There's a building that is surrounded by roller doors with up to 1,000 evacuees in it. That wasn't the brightest decision.
Now the biggest storm to ever hit Australia... really worried for my family, relatives and friends in the region. nothing I can do now. Spoke to Mum an hour ago but phones have gone down now so no idea when a I might next get through. All my immediate family are sheltering together and know the drills, so it's in the.hands of fate now...
Oops! There's one in every family.
Brother lives on a 45' yacht in Cairns harbour. He's sitting out the cyclone on it. He'll have a tale to tell afterwards.
Brother lives on a 45' yacht in Cairns harbour. He's sitting out the cyclone on it. He'll have a tale to tell afterwards.
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I have friends in Bramston Beach.
Looking at that map, they're in for interesting times!
Apparently there will be gusts up to 400km/h now.
The storm system is bigger than the USA
Booger. My wife is now officially fretting, and with good reason 😯
One of my nephews is a field geologist and their camp is near Mt Isa. Hopefully he's still in Brisbane following the Australia Day citizenship celebrations!
Should be ok at Mt Isa. (I used to live there.)
The only worry there will be the wind (Cat 3 is nothing in Qld), followed by flooding, but the locals will be used to that. We got cut off for 6 weeks in the '70s. No road, no rail, and the runway became unusable after a few weeks of supplies being flown in.
Hope he owns a bike, there won't be any petrol available shortly 🙂
Just spoke to my best mate who lives in cairns, he's having a few months in Sydney at the moment where there's a heatwave, however he hasn't bothered reinsuring his contents whilst he's away because a good friend is living in his place whilst hes there! Tad unlucky as his house is two blocks back from the sea front!! 😯
Just spoke to my best mate who lives in cairns, he's having a few months in Sydney at the moment where there's a heatwave, however he hasn't bothered reinsuring his contents whilst he's away because a good friend is living in his place whilst hes there! Tad unlucky as his house is two blocks back from the sea front!! 😯
AAh good to see the double posts are back!!!
Cairns looks like it's not getting the worst of it.
My mate near Innisfail is though.
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[url= http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ60801/IDQ60801.94295.shtml ]Weather observations from Lucinda, closest permanent station to the eye[/url] - currently gusting over 100knots... and that's around 150km from where Yasi is crossing...
It's now over 100km inland and still a Category 4. Monster.
Any body watching this guys shed 🙂
http://www.justin.tv/droodey/b/278751720?
where is the best place to watch live tv reports for this storm - you know the cnn type rolling news channel stuff online.
I'm quite annoyed by the absolute total lack of coverage of this on British TV. Granted, the situation in Egypt is a) simultaneously horrendous and full of hope for the people of Egypt and b) almost certainly a game-changer in the dynamics of Middle Eastern politics, but there are other things happening in the world. I want to see massive waves, reporters being blown over whilst telling us how windy it is, and lots and lots of footage of everyone tucked safely away in a storm shelter.
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It tracked SSW as it approached the shore so Cairns and a bit further south managed to avoid the _really_ bad parts. Mission Beach got it, i just did an expedition race all through this area so know it quite intimately now - mission beach, innisfail, tully, ravenshoe. Sheeeesh sounds like Tully and into the tablelands at ravenshoe got it real bad. Theres not a lot of info coming out now but its almost first light so they should have a better idea in the next few hours how bad it has been. Don't expect cheap bananas or avocados for a while I'd say. Compelling watching it though !
Phew! everyone accounted for except daft brother on his yacht. It'll be up a mangrove swamp somewhere tied to the trees, so he's probably ok.
There's a lot to be said for the Queensland building standards which ensures that any modern home is pretty cyclone resistant.