Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi - Eastern Australia

this is a big one…

i will be streaming as much as i can…

http://www.gorgecreekorchards.com.au/

massive!
the size of Queensland, the size of NZ !
now a Cat 5 (Aus scale)
925 hpa or so!
this is going to cause catastrophic damage
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/sohemi/sohemiloops/shirgmscol.html

good thing you are further north and inland Cyclone!

Stay safe

and you stay safe, your right in the path! 8O
I hope you are inland away from the storm surge?

thanks
I’m well away from creeks, rivers or seas (540m ASL) but i’m exposed to winds

We are on the coast but fortunately our house will be above any storm surge. This is going to be much worse than Cyclone Larry though.

It “shifting” int wzw direction.

Some statistics.
500km wide (bigger than the state of texas this thing is)
Category 5
Some areas expected more than 1000mm of rain in the next 24hrs
Storm surge somewhere between 2 and 5 meters

30,000 people forced to evacuate. You tend to get worried if the authorities send a message “North Queenslanders are advised to FLEE the area”. Yes FLEE, not leave, not evacuate… FLEE. Imagine that…

“This is a big one…” Might be a bit of an understatement.

Cyclone I think there is a bigger boy in town now mate (LOL). For sure it gives you an opportunity to update your avatar :-).

Cyclone, FNQ, stay save… Ill be watching your feeds. (unfortunately http://www.auweather.net is down I am working on it but it might be the massive traffic we getting on it now).

Anyway N.QLD is blowing away, and drowning. Victoria is on fire, NSW is on fire… business as usual I guess.

H.

check out
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/station.jsp?lt=site&lc=200283&list=ob
anenometer must have broke!
938hpa with the eye passing over!
27C with 98 % humidity!

check your messages i’ve sent you a PM , i need a code

Losing willis island already is not a good omen by my little anenometer in a few hours time.

i’ve got 3 up and running, but i need windy to send me a reg code ASAP for one of the backup inspeeds , please

done that now
(I was not at home before, our eldest started College today and I was at a orientation BBQ lunch)

thank you, well done

Very stange feeling at present. The tracking map indicates we are on the edge of the destructive winds and will now have the cyclone go directly over us. But at the moment we only have gusts up to around 50 km/h and the biggest gust was 7 hours ago. We still have power and can even go out on the balcony. Others further south have been getting it much worse.

Pressure is starting to get down though. The abyss awaits.

its been tracking more W than WSW last hour

so is heading towards between you and Cairns somewhere

note that place further down the coast have the effect of the easterly wind pressure against the high pressure further south
and the wind is onshore
where as you do not, being a southerly wind, ahead of it, where you are, and being a southerly wind, its moving over land, which slows the wind down (more friction that over water)

NZ hs been every windy lately, gusts to 130kmh in places, due to the high pressure system being squeezed on the other side against a series of low/fronts in the southern ocean!

update: now moving between W and WSW
straight for Innesfaill at the moment…

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/gco27

nice!

We have lost power. My rain gauge has also called it in early.

WD is still updating my Wunderground information.

Wind is still not that bad. Definitely nowhere near larry strength as yet (almost tempted to go out and try and fix the rain gauge).

I see its resumed the WSW movement
might go just to the south of Inesfail…

its still 100kmh offshore…

Local radar also indicates it is heading more south west.

Very weird system as we still have not had strong winds and it is so close.

Shame about mssing the eye - good chance to fix rain gauge