Monica: 180mph *sustained*, 879 mb. 220mph gusts.

[phantom power]

http://www.thestormtrack.com/

[FightingIrish]

1. There's a name they maybe should have retired.

[Poll_Blind]

3. Thinking the same thing here, LOL! n/t

PB

[lostexpectation]

2. is that 220mph sucking or blowing?

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[northofdenali]

4. Funny as the name is, I hope our down under friends

are all okay. That is a BIG typhoon. 180 MPH can do incredible, almost unimaginable, damage.

Edited to add photo from the SMH:

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2006/04/24/monica_wideweb__470x417,0.jpg

[kestrel91316]

5. There's just something so WRONG about those backwards

hurricanes in the southern hemisphere..............

Does anybody know if it's true about sinks draining and toilets emptying the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere, too? You know, clockwise vs counterclockwise?

[mainegreen]

9. The whole draining/direction thing for water in sinks/toilets is a myth.

The corialis force is not strong enough to create enough of an effect on such a small scale. The direction of flow is really more determined by the existing angular momentum in the water already.

[kestrel91316]

11. LOL, ok.

[NNadir]

6. That is an incredible storm.

One really doesn't know what to say.

I wonder what this hurricane season will bring to the Atlantic.

[Dead_Parrot]

7. Look on the bright side...

...maybe the fucking Aus government will take Kyoto seriously now.


Yeah, Right.

[rfkrfk]

8. Australia gets 108 ?

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1997/global.warming/stories/treaty/index4.html

how much will Australia's increase be?, in the next treaty

[Odin2005]

10. 180 m/hr!?! Holy Christ!