Anyone Else Tracking Cat 5 Cyclone in Autralia? Situation Dire

[leftyladyfrommo]

Worst storm to ever hit there. Worse than Katrina. And this is the 2nd one this year. Awful!

I'm afraid we may be in for years of absolutely horrible storms.

Learning to live in this new environment may get tricky. Our houses and utilities are no built to withstand the kinds of storms that we are seeing all around the globe.

[mattclearing]

1. link?

[leftyladyfrommo]

2. I'll go find one.

[leftyladyfrommo]

3. Here is link

http://thestormtrack.com/archives/2006/04/category_5_moni.html

[lonestarnot]

9. Holy crap! She looks devastating!

[Sal316]

4. I saw that last night...

Sustained winds of 180mph with gusts to 220mph. An absolutely monstrous and well defined storm.

[leftyladyfrommo]

5. The only good thing is I don't think it is a really heavily

populated area - but I'm not familiar with Australia.

They just had a horrible cyclone three or four weeks ago.

[TahitiNut]

8. Monica will hit Darwin tomorrow. Darwin is a port and largest NW city.

The population of Darwin is about 105,000 people. On Christmas Eve 1974 Darwin was almost completely destroyed by Cyclone Tracy. Of the town's 11,000 houses, only 400 survived relatively intact. Cyclone Monica is far larger than Cyclone Tracy, which has been the 'benchmark' of the largest to hit the area ever.

[Roland99]

6. Typhoon Monica

1. TROPICAL CYCLONE 23P (MONICA) WARNING NR 016
01 ACTIVE TROPICAL CYCLONE IN SOUTHIO
MAX SUSTAINED WINDS BASED ON ONE-MINUTE AVERAGE
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WARNING POSITION:
240600Z --- NEAR 11.7S 134.5E
MOVEMENT PAST SIX HOURS - 245 DEGREES AT 07 KTS
POSITION ACCURATE TO WITHIN 030 NM
POSITION BASED ON EYE FIXED BY SATELLITE
PRESENT WIND DISTRIBUTION:
MAX SUSTAINED WINDS - 155 KT, GUSTS 190 KT

...

REMARKS:
240900Z POSITION NEAR 11.9S 134.2E.
TROPICAL CYCLONE (TC) 23P (MONICA), LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 220 NM EAST-
NORTHEAST OF DARWIN, AUSTRALIA, HAS TRACKED WEST-SOUTHWESTWARD AT 07
KNOTS OVER THE PAST SIX HOURS. THE MID-LEVEL STEERING RIDGE SOUTH OF
THE STORM WILL WEAKEN AND SHIFT EASTWARD IN RESPONSE TO A MAJOR SHORT-
WAVE TROUGH NOW OVER WESTERN AUSTRALIA. THE INFLUENCE OF LAND WILL
BEGIN TO WEAKEN THE SYSTEM SIGNIFICANTLY PAST TAU 24. THE SYSTEM IS
CURRENTLY FORECAST TO REMAIN OVER LAND THROUGH THE FORECAST PERIOD.
THE TRACK WILL CONTINUE TO CURVE POLEWARD DUE TO THE INFLUENCE THE
TROUGH WILL HAVE ON THE STEERING RIDGE. MAXIMUM SIGNIFICANT WAVE
HEIGHT AT 240600Z IS 34 FEET.

[DemoTex]

7. The Bard nailed it in 1608.

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanes, spout
Till you have drench'd our steeples, drown'd the cocks!
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world!
Crack nature's moulds, and germens spill at once,
That make ingrateful man!

Rumble thy bellyful! Spit, fire! Spout, rain!
Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters:
I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness;
I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children,
You owe me no subscription: then let fall
Your horrible pleasure: here I stand, your slave,
A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man:
But yet I call you servile ministers,
That have with two pernicious daughters join'd
Your high engender'd battles 'gainst a head
So old and white as this. O! O! 'tis foul!

King Lear, Act III. Scene II, William Shakespeare

[leftyladyfrommo]

14. Good quote.

I like storms - but not storms like this one.

[Jim Warren]

10. Dread

Anyone else dreading the Atlantic hurricane season '06?

I'm thinking elevated ocean and gulf water temps worldwide are gonna cause much grief.

:yoiks:

[leftyladyfrommo]

15. I think it's going to be god-awful.

Hurricans run in 30 year cycles. This new one just started. This could go on for years and years.

So why are we rebuilding NO? At least get the new levees up to spead.

[Generarth]

11. Australian weather info

http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDDP0002.txt

[phantom power]

12. We're watching it over at Environment/Energy. Monster storm.

[Coexist]

13. they are discussing this on CNN now.

what a monster.

[leftyladyfrommo]

16. Poor Darwin! I hope those people were evacuated.

I hope they are handling this better than our govt. did.