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[Bully]

its sad yes. bom website have just realised the cyclone is turning south slightly towards innisfail.

im in brisbane about 2000kms from cairns but its been awful here the past few days due to the cyclone pushing the hot air from inland over us.

cyclone tracy in 1974 was the biggest (wind speed) but this is ment to be more

[Footy Chick]

Cyclone Tracy was a baby compared to this.

It was a cat 4 with an eye around 12 km.

Yasi is a cat 5 with an eye reportedly around 50km or so..

When I was in Darwin a couple of years ago, I attempted to go into the Cyclone room, which for the uninitiated is a pitch black room that depicts the sound of the cyclone to the decible.

I could only handle it for about 10 seconds.

[Bully]

Cyclone Tracy was a baby compared to this.

It was a cat 4 with an eye around 12 km.

Yasi is a cat 5 with an eye reportedly around 50km or so..

When I was in Darwin a couple of years ago, I attempted to go into the Cyclone room, which for the uninitiated is a pitch black room that depicts the sound of the cyclone to the decible.

I could only handle it for about 10 seconds.

yes i agree but the highest recorded winds for cyclones is still tracy to this day. but this will change with yasi

[Bully]

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR192.loop.shtml#skip

take a look at that link. its very close now

[Interceptor]

Cyclone Tracy was a baby compared to this.

It was a cat 4 with an eye around 12 km.

Yasi is a cat 5 with an eye reportedly around 50km or so..

When I was in Darwin a couple of years ago, I attempted to go into the Cyclone room, which for the uninitiated is a pitch black room that depicts the sound of the cyclone to the decible.

I could only handle it for about 10 seconds.

yes i agree but the highest recorded winds for cyclones is still tracy to this day. but this will change with yasi

Actually, the official record is held by another Cyclone:

Cyclone Olivia in April 1996 generated a wind gust of 408 km/h on Barrow Island off the Western Australian coast -- a world record.
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The anemometer at Darwin airport recorded a gust of 217 kilometres per hour (135 miles per hour) before the instrument was destroyed, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.

Not unprecedented:

If it [Yasi] maintained its current intensity when it crossed the coast, it would be the strongest cyclone to hit Queensland since 1899

La Nina helps fuel monster Australian cyclone Yasi

[dedja]

I don't know what QLD did to piss off the Big Fella lately, but jeez, they've done a good job

[A Mum]

This was the last FB update from my cousin in Townsville about 10 mins ago:

lights flickering over and out every one - luv you all and stay safe xxxxxdxxxx will try and keep connected via facebook

Really makes it hit home, doesn't it

Sure does - gave me goosebumps

[Bum Crack]

Gripping viewing on Sky News Australia tonight. I think I'll be up all night glued to the tv. Hoping everyone is going to be ok.

[Gingernuts]

Here's a quote from one of my facebook friends who moved the Cairns with his wife and baby daughter barely 2 weeks ago.

wind's up and getting louder. We might try and put Amy to sleep in the bath when we go into the bathroom. We still have power at this point - can't imagine it will stay on much longer with these winds. Watching ABC 24 and have barricaded the front door with dining table and freezer to secure it a little more. We're doing okay atm.

He posted it 20 mins ago. Crazy stuff.

[A Mum]

Not sure many Australians are going to get much sleep tonight.
Everyone I know is glued to the TV.

I just hope so much that it's not as devistating as they are saying it could be

[Ron Burgundy]

Just got a text from a mate in townsville.

"Light breeze, not the best day for sailing!"

Apparently 90,000 without power in townsville. An 18m wave was recorded too, but Bight just said the weather had made a mess of the measure.

[Brucetiki]

Someone left it way to late to evacuate

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/port ... 5999067005

[am Bays]

Cyclone Olivia in April 1996 generated a wind gust of 408 km/h on Barrow Island off the Western Australian coast -- a world record.
---
The anemometer at Darwin airport recorded a gust of 217 kilometres per hour (135 miles per hour) before the instrument was destroyed, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.

Not unprecedented:

If it [Yasi] maintained its current intensity when it crossed the coast, it would be the strongest cyclone to hit Queensland since 1899

La Nina helps fuel monster Australian cyclone Yasi

Not sure if that information is correct as Tracy was a cat four cyclone which means it had to have winds recorded between 225 and 279 km/h to meet that category. http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/faq/index.shtml#definitions I understand that the wind anemometer broke at 257 km/h before the eye passed over the airport at about 02:30 hrs on 25/12/1975. Anecdotal reports were the wind were stronger after the eye but no where near what Yasi is/was.

FC I've met person who took that wind recording and yeah it is scary stuff. Talk to the people who went through Tracy and you get even more scared. A friend of of ours was so scared huddled in her bath with her new-born baby she inadvertantly squeezed his head out of shape....

[A Mum]

Just watching on TV.
Good to hear that so far no reported deaths from this cyclone.

3 babies born during the cyclone.
1 in an evacuation centre.
Where there happened to be a midwife who was on holiday from the UK.

[Interceptor]

Not sure if that information is correct as Tracy was a cat four cyclone which means it had to have winds recorded between 225 and 279 km/h to meet that category. http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/faq/index.shtml#definitions I understand that the wind anemometer broke at 257 km/h before the eye passed over the airport at about 02:30 hrs on 25/12/1975. Anecdotal reports were the wind were stronger after the eye but no where near what Yasi is/was.

FC I've met person who took that wind recording and yeah it is scary stuff. Talk to the people who went through Tracy and you get even more scared. A friend of of ours was so scared huddled in her bath with her new-born baby she inadvertantly squeezed his head out of shape....

I don't doubt that Tracy was probaby 250+ km/h.
The BOM reference to the 217 km/h speed at which the anemometer can be read here.
BTW, I was there, but was too young to remember anything about it now.

[Gingernuts]

Just watching on TV.
Good to hear that so far no reported deaths from this cyclone.

3 babies born during the cyclone.
1 in an evacuation centre.
Where there happened to be a midwife who was on holiday from the UK.

That will make for a ripper story in 21 years time!

[A Mum]

Just watching on TV.
Good to hear that so far no reported deaths from this cyclone.

3 babies born during the cyclone.
1 in an evacuation centre.
Where there happened to be a midwife who was on holiday from the UK.

That will make for a ripper story in 21 years time!

Yes - that's what I was thinking...lol.

Not to mention the story that midwife can now tell of her holiday to Australia..lol.

[Rik E Boy]

Not sure many Australians are going to get much sleep tonight.
Everyone I know is glued to the TV.

I just hope so much that it's not as devistating as they are saying it could be

My brother in law in Cairns slept through the whole thing LOL.

regards,

REB

[A Mum]

Not sure many Australians are going to get much sleep tonight.
Everyone I know is glued to the TV.

I just hope so much that it's not as devistating as they are saying it could be

My brother in law in Cairns slept through the whole thing LOL.

regards,

REB

That's good...lol.

They are saying that destruction /population wise - the cyclone couldn't have taken a 'better' path.

I'm sure we're yet to see/hear stories coming out of the affected areas, lets just hope it continues to be no loss of life.

[OnSong]

There's a lot of Bowen Lockwood about Cyclone Yasi.