Thread: QLD Australia bracing for a cat 5 cyclone in a few hours

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http://www.goes.noaa.gov/sohemi/sohe...hirgmscol.html

After just going through all the floods in queensland Australia, now they are facing a life threatening cat 5 cyclone, with the ocean expected to surge 4.5 meters in just 3 hours, the cyclone is expected to hit from 8.30 pm and continue to get stronger up until 10.pm and beyond.
this will be the biggest cyclone to hit the country in australian history.
check out the size of this mother f.......... in the above link.
this link shows just how much bigger it is than the previouse ones we have had.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/q...-1225997904763
lucky foir me i live in new south wales, a long way from me.
barnsey

Oh God, that looks horrible. What is a Cyclone exactly? I know Hurricanes but not sure of the difference.

We wish them well over there.

Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Oh God, that looks horrible. What is a Cyclone exactly? I know Hurricanes but not sure of the difference.

We wish them well over there.

Don

hope you get all your toys up on dry land? ,we are on a snowstorm watch ourselves tonight for up to two feet of snow and strong wind blown snow ,this year has sucked for just about all of us ,,BOB FROM BUFFALO NEW YORK

Good Luck to Y'all folks down under - - - may God be with you thru this ordeal.

Geez, that thing's huge. The cyclone is simply a southern hemisphere hurricane, rotating in the opposite direction due to polar attraction as I recall? As you said, it's good to be a distance away from that bad boy.

OMG - that's a lot worse then what BBC on-line showed this morning. That wind speed 320kph translates to approximately 198mph for us here in America. Much worse then our latest bad one, Katrina

Good luck to any of our members and their families and everyone else that are in the path - you're in our prayers

I wish the best of luck for your colleages barnsey....I`ve never seen anything like the weather we`ve all seen this year everywhere...

you guys stay buckled up and stay safe. been tracking hurricanes and cyclones for years. never saw one this ferocious.

here is an image showing the size of this thing. 600 kilometres wide, and the eye is 100 kilometres wide.
I am glad that i live about 1800 hundred kilometers from there in new south wales.

Dose not look like the place to be be careful there

I've been on the ocean, Pacific, in some pretty rough seas, but never anything like that.

I am 1800 kilometers from there so i am high dry and safe, but a few members off my aussi forum are up that way.
its 600 kilometers accross and the eye is now 100 kilometers, it has just taken the weather tracking station out on willis island, a small island off the coast, luckly those guys had already evacuated yesterday.
barnsey

Yeesh barnsey,,not nice at all..My brother and his wife live about an 1 1/4 hours north of Brisbane,and seems to think they will be okay..Dont really think i would want to be that close to that thing..
You guys are getting your moneys worth of crap weather lately arent you??
And werent there bush fires over there too,just recently??Perth??

you guys stay safe!!!

heres the latest live map.
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/sohemi/sohe...hirgmscol.html