Cyclone Debbie inbound
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Cyclone Debbie inbound
MKY/TSV/PPP now ceased pax ops. Hats off to all those who pitched in to get the people out.
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Take it easy out there folks!
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My wife's name is Debbie...
Oh the irony!!!
Misery and destruction in her wake...
Oh the irony!!!
Misery and destruction in her wake...
Its that Global Warming wot caused it
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Cyclone Debbie is no bigger than any other large cyclone that has hit Australia in the last 200+ years of recorded Australian weather events.
In fact, if early weather recording equipment was more accurate, more widely positioned, and logged more comprehensively, I would hazard a WAG that some of the cyclones in the mid-to-late 1800's were considerably stronger and larger than any recorded in the 20th or 21st century - judging by the destruction caused by those cyclones in the 1800's.
Overall, the last 2 or 3 years has been a relatively quiet cyclone period for Australia. In Western Australia, we are approaching the end of the cyclone season and nary a cyclone of any note has been recorded for this whole "wet season".
This is quite unusual - usually a minimum of a couple of cyclones hit W.A., each wet season.
Yet, surprisingly, this wet season is promising to be one of the best for 20 or 25 years across the NT and the top half of W.A.
There has been a substantial increase in rainfall recorded all across these areas, but this has been largely the result of simple, large monsoonal lows, that have carried vast amounts of moisture into these areas, from the seas to the N of Australia.
I trust the destruction from Debbie isn't too bad, but a very large number of important vegetable crops in Nth QLD look to be in the firing line.
In fact, if early weather recording equipment was more accurate, more widely positioned, and logged more comprehensively, I would hazard a WAG that some of the cyclones in the mid-to-late 1800's were considerably stronger and larger than any recorded in the 20th or 21st century - judging by the destruction caused by those cyclones in the 1800's.
Overall, the last 2 or 3 years has been a relatively quiet cyclone period for Australia. In Western Australia, we are approaching the end of the cyclone season and nary a cyclone of any note has been recorded for this whole "wet season".
This is quite unusual - usually a minimum of a couple of cyclones hit W.A., each wet season.
Yet, surprisingly, this wet season is promising to be one of the best for 20 or 25 years across the NT and the top half of W.A.
There has been a substantial increase in rainfall recorded all across these areas, but this has been largely the result of simple, large monsoonal lows, that have carried vast amounts of moisture into these areas, from the seas to the N of Australia.
I trust the destruction from Debbie isn't too bad, but a very large number of important vegetable crops in Nth QLD look to be in the firing line.
"I trust the destruction from Debbie isn't too bad, but a very large number of important vegetable crops in Nth QLD look to be in the firing line."
I agree with onetrack. (But have far more empathy for those living there.)
So most importantly, stock up on your Cavendish bananas NOW!
I agree with onetrack. (But have far more empathy for those living there.)
So most importantly, stock up on your Cavendish bananas NOW!
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"I can feel another tax coming on"................."oh wait"... it's a global warming thing right!!!
Either way, all BS a side, best to those poor buggers in her wake, take spacial care and seek shelter, stay safe.
Either way, all BS a side, best to those poor buggers in her wake, take spacial care and seek shelter, stay safe.
Via topdrop: Do you really think that anyone with any intelligence is going to think that would be a statement from a reputable scientist as against a misrepresentation that would come from a global warming sceptic?
There's nothing tough about refusing to evacuate in the face of a cyclone. If you survive the winds and roaring storm surge you were just lucky, not resilient.
But if you live on the coast and you simply wait for the blast front and the tsunami because some pissweak little storm isn't going to scare you away, you're living in denial at best. At worst, you're a selfish idiot who will endanger the lives of everyone who has to come to your aid.
Cyclone Debbie will either smash down on Bowen in the next couple of hours or, in the undivinable way of these things, veer away, or weaken, and somehow spare the hundreds, maybe thousands of people who ignored the evacuation order.
And sure, some would have found it close to impossible to get gone. Everyone would have been inconvenienced. But there's a special sort of stupidity that revels in defying the violence of Mother Nature when she decides to get serious.
We love these idiots. We, the media. You, our readers and viewers.
We can't help but urge them on from the cheap seats, safe and dry thousands of miles away. Every doomed but noble gesture of defiance hums with the potential of a story that could go viral.
In that way we're even bigger morons and more culpable than those fools without the sense to get moving when they've been told the ocean itself could rise up and come for them.
It's a recurrence in miniature of the stupidity that powers climate change denial. The long-term trends are firming up now. Since about 1970, it seems, our local cyclone season has been changing, delivering fewer storms but of greater intensity. Elsewhere the pattern is different, and that difference is enough for dangerous idiots to deny there is a pattern to be discerned. It's all just weather, they say.
But it's not. We can't know what Debbie will bring, not in the particular. But we can predict that it will be destructive.
We can't know from day to day what climate change will bring. But we do know that it will be ruinous.
Or we would know that. If we were smart enough to simply open our eyes and see what's coming.
Only selfish idiots stay to look a cyclone in the eye, and we're fools for watching them
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Hard for us down South to comprehend winds over 100Kts. Scary stuff. The most we ever see on a TAF down here is gusting 40Kts or in extreme conditions, up to 50Kts. Hope everyone is ok up there and damage is kept to a minimum.
Hard for us down South to comprehend winds over 100Kts. Scary stuff. The most we ever see on a TAF down here is gusting 40Kts or in extreme conditions, up to 50Kts. Hope everyone is ok up there and damage is kept to a minimum.
The south to west quadrant of the cyclone is the worst area for wind and rain. Hence the battering the QLD coast receives whenever one makes land fall.
Shouldn't be long before Hamo is out of that area and they can start to take a breather!
Hayman Island has not long finished a refurbishment after Cyclone Anthony 6 years ago!
Shouldn't be long before Hamo is out of that area and they can start to take a breather!
Hayman Island has not long finished a refurbishment after Cyclone Anthony 6 years ago!
It's so vicious it has blown away the "King Air down at Essendon" (or similar...) thread!
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Take a look at Bowen radar and also the Queensland obs for this morning. There is something that doesn't fit about the Hamilton Island observations since 09:42 local this morning.