Yep SB, the speed she has travelled means maximum impact. Yasi was a big hit and run job..... this is something else. The rain she is going to drop in the next 48 hours is also going to be something.
JasmineStorm wrote: ↑Tue Mar 28, 2017 3:07 pm
Yep SB, the speed she has travelled means maximum impact. Yasi was a big hit and run job..... this is something else. The rain she is going to drop in the next 48 hours is also going to be something.
Stevco, uncanny how that always happens
Oh that's alright. Who cares about the stupid radar. I'm genuinely worried about those people up there. It looks not a wide enough area was evacuated as the cyclone veered a little more south than forecast.
I have never seen a cyclone move this slowly and being a Cat 4.......the damage is going to be horrific in the path of the Whitsundays and Airlie beach and 100 km either side, especially the southern side.
BoM numbers so far
- 262 km/h at Hamilton Island airport at 10:30 am
- 165 km/h at Proserpine Airport 12:57 am
- 148 km/h at Bowen Airport at 2:24 pm
OZ storm chaser 247 km/h Airlie beach
and she hasn't finished yet, still smashing Airlie beach as I type..... and then comes the rain. This is a historic weather event unfolding.
Whilst I enjoyed the massive live TV coverage, I was amazed at the stupidity of their locations. Clearly had no clue.
At one stage, a close up of 2 inches of a real estate verandah sign moving was the best they could do.
Memo to TV stations: Only water comes from the sea.
News cameras hid behind buildings in town and tried to talk up.... nothing because too chicken to go out into suburbs and countryside.
However, a first for Australia, live extended cyclone coverage.
Yes Mick, I was thinking the same thing..... all of these reporters in Bowen and Mackay. All the biggest storm chasers from around the world were at Airlie beach
Debbie has barely moved on the Sat Pic..... a storm chaser in Airlie beach says she is still smashing the place to bits.
unprecedented damage starting to unfold as assessments commence but this system still has more to deliver....
Ex TC Debbie is now a dangerous landphoon and an enormous water bomb. 646mm 24 hour total at Clarke range west of Mackay.
Ensembles suggesting a widespread weather event in SE Queensland and northern NSW. The Landphoon will come back to life over water off SE Qld with the southern cold front surging cold uppers reinvigorating the low off the coast, spawning a secondary windy and wet bomb, similar to an east coast low. Only wind shear would stop it becoming a cyclone again.
This could become serious for SE Queensland tomorrow.
ex TC Debbie winding up for a direct hit on South East Qld. She is now moving close to the coast and the wrap around east side is gaining intensity. 800 schools have been forced to close in the south east Queensland area this morning.
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