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

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

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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

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:(hope you get all your toys up on dry land? ,:HMMM: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 ,,:confused: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.:eek::eek: 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.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y28...52sIU1HC3g.jpg

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..:eek: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??:eek:

you guys stay safe!!!

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

Y'all are in our thoughts and prayers this morning.

I have a question, if I may. I think that Hurricanes and Cyclones rotate in opposite directions so does being south of the equator change the rotation?

looking at this live sat image this one is rotating clockwise.
http://www.weatherchannel.com.au/Wea...#QLD/rainradar

Thanks Barnsey, but the more I look around the net for info on this, the more confused I get. One source said emphatically that hurricanes and cyclones rotate in the opposite direction and then I found this statement.

Cyclonic rotation is a term used to describe the rotating movement of a tropical storm. In the Northern Hemisphere, tropical storms rotate counterclockwise. In the Southern Hemisphere, tropical cyclones rotate clockwise. Both directions of rotation are due to the Coriolis Effect and the major wind belts on Earth.

One more question please?
Is a cyclone just a hurricane that is below the equator, maybe? Or does each of them occur on both sides of the equator?

(no hi-jack intended here)

mello hurricanes is what we call them when they are in the atlantic and pacific when they are close to us. cyclones are what they are called when they are near asia and points west. cyclones are more powerful as they travel over the open warm waters for a longer period of time and gain more power. both hurricanes and cyclones get there direction of rotation from wether they are north or south of the equator. just like toilet bowls flush in different directions north or south of the equator.

Thanks Barb, now I understand !

meller

anytime mello as much as you help me with the car stuff.:)

Yall be careful down there. Last bad storm I went through was on the north west shelf in Australia a cat 5 cyclone back in 2004. We have been fortunate in south Texas now for quite a few years and been dodging them hurricanes. Be safe and your in our prayers.

Not to get too far off track but the Coriolis Force affects large air masses, but is too weak to affect drains & toilets.

http://www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.asp

Sure hope everybody stays safe.

:LOL: thanks pro. i have been taught that so many years that i thought it was true. i should have known better.

Huh, I've always heard that the water drains a different direction too!!!:confused: In fact, I was watching Whale Wars one night and one of the crew was arrested because he boarded a Japanese whaling boat. They took him back to Japan, locked in one cabin on the boat. He said he kept track of when he crossed over the equator because he would periodically fill the sink up with water and watch it drain. When it changed directions he knew he was getting close to Japan.

What do you know???????? :confused:

Don

My toilet bowl flushes down, what direction does yours go? :D

Wow all our down under friends I wish you safe and well today! Keep us posted.