CYCLONE "YASI".....Nth QLD
Hmmm, that was an interesting experience! I have been through about seven cyclones - this one had attitude.
Castle Fork, which is built like a brick sh*thouse, came through unscathed and none of the houses around us appear to be damaged but there are lots of trees down etc.
There will be lots of damage elsewhere and my thoughts are with those who have been belted.
The storm surge was not as high as predicted so I suspect the FTDK will be OK.
Dr
Castle Fork, which is built like a brick sh*thouse, came through unscathed and none of the houses around us appear to be damaged but there are lots of trees down etc.
There will be lots of damage elsewhere and my thoughts are with those who have been belted.
The storm surge was not as high as predicted so I suspect the FTDK will be OK.
Dr
Yes I was in Tracy and that WAS scary ****!!
I'm not trying to downplay the Cyclone but I'm starting to suspect ( as I mentioned yesterday ) that this storm was hyped up a bit too much.
Especially by the TV Media in their rooms in CNS!! "The winds were lashing the town, strange eery noises followed by silence, are we in the eye now?"
Come on get your hand off it for goodness sake, 40 odd kts with the occasional 50 kt gust is nothing for a town built like CNS in 2011.
hype hype hype
Ratings Bonanza
I guess they'll be looking for a Pulitzer next!!
I'm not trying to downplay the Cyclone but I'm starting to suspect ( as I mentioned yesterday ) that this storm was hyped up a bit too much.
Especially by the TV Media in their rooms in CNS!! "The winds were lashing the town, strange eery noises followed by silence, are we in the eye now?"
Come on get your hand off it for goodness sake, 40 odd kts with the occasional 50 kt gust is nothing for a town built like CNS in 2011.
hype hype hype
Ratings Bonanza
I guess they'll be looking for a Pulitzer next!!
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I could have barefooted on the "crashing waves and huge seas" Mel was waffling on about over her shoulder (as she struggled to think of something sensational to say).
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Glad you're okay, FTDK.
I don't know about overhyping the actual storm (cat 5 must be scary in anyone's book) but there was certainly a lot of waffle before it came. Why they couldn't just do an hourly update instead of rolling emotional, overexcited crap with journos in raincoats, pollies pretending to be weathergirls and enough 'experts' to fill a Sunday supplement is beyond me.
I got sick of it all after an hour or so and stuck with PPRuNe and the BOM site. That said, the ABC was less drivelly than the others.
I don't know about overhyping the actual storm (cat 5 must be scary in anyone's book) but there was certainly a lot of waffle before it came. Why they couldn't just do an hourly update instead of rolling emotional, overexcited crap with journos in raincoats, pollies pretending to be weathergirls and enough 'experts' to fill a Sunday supplement is beyond me.
I got sick of it all after an hour or so and stuck with PPRuNe and the BOM site. That said, the ABC was less drivelly than the others.
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I don't know about overhyping the actual storm (cat 5 must be scary in anyone's book) but there was certainly a lot of waffle before it came. Why they couldn't just do an hourly update instead of rolling emotional, overexcited crap with journos in raincoats, pollies pretending to be weathergirls and enough 'experts' to fill a Sunday supplement is beyond me.
I got sick of it all after an hour or so
I got sick of it all after an hour or so
But no doubt any information at all was eagerly sought by those in affected areas.
Missed MKR did you?
Well!
Have been for a bit of a drive around the place - to work and to the aerodrome. There appears to be relatively little structural damage to homes etc - but lots and lots of timber down. The structural damage I saw was all caused by trees coming down or shedding branches. A bit of tree trimming prior to cyclone season would not go astray.
FTDK is all OK - didn't move at all in the hangar and there was no flooding. A Lance that was not tied down did a bit of sightseeing around the aerodrome but doesn't seem to have hit anything and appears to have remainded upright. An Aerobat that was tied down outside looks a little the worse for wear. One tie down appears to have broken and various bits of the aerodrome are missing.
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Have been for a bit of a drive around the place - to work and to the aerodrome. There appears to be relatively little structural damage to homes etc - but lots and lots of timber down. The structural damage I saw was all caused by trees coming down or shedding branches. A bit of tree trimming prior to cyclone season would not go astray.
FTDK is all OK - didn't move at all in the hangar and there was no flooding. A Lance that was not tied down did a bit of sightseeing around the aerodrome but doesn't seem to have hit anything and appears to have remainded upright. An Aerobat that was tied down outside looks a little the worse for wear. One tie down appears to have broken and various bits of the aerodrome are missing.
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Keep in mind that the wind readings at YBCS are seriously skewed by the fact there is a mountain to the west of the airfield that blocks any significant wind readings from the South West and West, which is the wind direction Cairns copped last night. The suburbs to the west of the said hill copped a battering last night, take it from me, I was there. 
Nothing, however, compared to our poor friends to the south of us in YIFL and Cardwell.
Nothing, however, compared to our poor friends to the south of us in YIFL and Cardwell.
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Still say the media hyped it up with sensationalistic reporting.
Agree with that Nitpicker. All the sell Newspapers and TV commercials.
I'm starting to suspect ( as I mentioned yesterday ) that this storm was hyped up a bit too much.
hype hype hype
Ratings Bonanza
I guess they'll be looking for a Pulitzer next!!
hype hype hype
Ratings Bonanza
I guess they'll be looking for a Pulitzer next!!
And all too obviously that crew who faked the moon landing video were still around to dummy up those satellite images.
Just as well we've got you and Critical here then to keep us all on an even keel eh Picker?
Especially when they managed to sucker in the BOM folk as well -
SEVERE TC YASI IS A LARGE AND VERY POWERFUL TROPICAL CYCLONE AND POSES AN EXTREMELY SERIOUS THREAT TO LIFE AND PROPERTY WITHIN THE WARNING AREA,
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But no doubt any information at all was eagerly sought by those in affected areas.
Of course it wasn't compulsory, that's why I turned it off. By that logic, no-one should ever criticise a television broadcast because they're optional viewing.
Missed MKR did you? 
Mate I have no doubt where the Cyclone hit was devastated. Although those pictures dont show houses flattened like I saw in Darwin Christmas 1974. A Few flat Banana trees doesn't mean much either ( Banana trees are not built to withstand much wind anyway )
Re-read my posts again and you'll see my main complaint was the Jernos hyping it up in CNS and Hamo Island where the winds weren't too bad, certainly nothing much more than we see in Melbourne ( a city not built to withstand Cyclones )
CH 9's Karl had views behind him this am of downtown and it certainly looked 100% normal for CNS, no trees ripped up or downed power lines as the reporters said was happening last night "Cairns is being ripped apart"
Mission Bay, Dunk Island are quite another thing and any Jerno reporting from there would have had good reason to be a bit worried!!
Re-read my posts again and you'll see my main complaint was the Jernos hyping it up in CNS and Hamo Island where the winds weren't too bad, certainly nothing much more than we see in Melbourne ( a city not built to withstand Cyclones )
Especially by the TV Media in their rooms in CNS!!
Mission Bay, Dunk Island are quite another thing and any Jerno reporting from there would have had good reason to be a bit worried!!
It was interesting to hear the ABC interview a electrician at one of the towns that copped the full force of the cyclone and inspite of the ABC reporter trying to sensationalise the event this bloke threw cold water all over the ABC comments. Essentially if you live in a newer house built to code then you have no problems... It was only the older houses and trees/power lines that sustained any damage. The guy also pointed out that cyclones are normal for this part of the world and that they will just repair what needs to be repaired and move on. Certainly took the wind of the reporters sails that's for sure.
Sky had a jerno straming live pictures from his ground floor hotel room facing south in Bowen. Yes the wind was ripping past quite nicely at what I observed to be 35 to 40 kts but I've lived in QLD by the beach in High Rise buildings and believe me they "funnel" the wind and make it seem a lot worse than it really is.
The studio commentator commented that the wind out his window was 160km/h!!
Another Jerno reporting from CNS around midnight (when the EYE was just crossing the coast around Dunk ) that "when the Eye Passes CNS watch out, there'll be 1 hour of calm before the winds blast back the other way".....
Mel on Sunrise was Twittering all night about the devastating winds whistling around her hotel room in CNS, moments of terror when the noise stopped and she thought they were in the EYE!! If she's bothered to check the BOM CNS WX Radar picture she'd have seen the EYE was way down south of CNS.
If she'd bothered to check the BOM CNS winds she's have known the winds weren't that bad.,
SKY news were repeatedly showing looped SAT images from 20,000 miles away of the Cyclone approaching the coast ( as were CH 7 ) whilst totally ignoring the much better, larger scale more updated BOM CNS Radar. The storm had crossed the coast at 1200, around 5 minutes before they knew. I rang them and suggested they might like to show the Radar as was told to Fark off......we know what were doing!! Yeah I'm sure you do young lady.
Maybe if they were really interested in keeping people up to date they would have shown the CNS Radar live with an expert there to tell them exactly where the EYE is and where its going........Now that might have been useful.
The studio commentator commented that the wind out his window was 160km/h!!
Another Jerno reporting from CNS around midnight (when the EYE was just crossing the coast around Dunk ) that "when the Eye Passes CNS watch out, there'll be 1 hour of calm before the winds blast back the other way".....
Mel on Sunrise was Twittering all night about the devastating winds whistling around her hotel room in CNS, moments of terror when the noise stopped and she thought they were in the EYE!! If she's bothered to check the BOM CNS WX Radar picture she'd have seen the EYE was way down south of CNS.
If she'd bothered to check the BOM CNS winds she's have known the winds weren't that bad.,
SKY news were repeatedly showing looped SAT images from 20,000 miles away of the Cyclone approaching the coast ( as were CH 7 ) whilst totally ignoring the much better, larger scale more updated BOM CNS Radar. The storm had crossed the coast at 1200, around 5 minutes before they knew. I rang them and suggested they might like to show the Radar as was told to Fark off......we know what were doing!! Yeah I'm sure you do young lady.
Maybe if they were really interested in keeping people up to date they would have shown the CNS Radar live with an expert there to tell them exactly where the EYE is and where its going........Now that might have been useful.
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my main complaint was the Jernos hyping it up in CNS and Hamo Island where the winds weren't too bad,
I don't watch much TV - especially rolling crisis coverage since (as obviously here) so much of it tends to be repetitive, boring and aggravating.
BTW Worrals - MKR =My Kitchen Rules - and yes, I admit watching that one
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Well this should now 'flush out' the Darling River system, and all others in the associated catchment areas, as it degrades into a 'rain bearing depression'.....and moves.....(?)...
Sholud 'fix' all of those water allocation arguments for a while, and those saved $'s could be used for.....
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Sholud 'fix' all of those water allocation arguments for a while, and those saved $'s could be used for.....
Australia 4km enhir (MTSAT-1R)
Cheers
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Or this 'animated' version is probably a better appreciation....
http://realtime2.bsch.au.com/enhir_s...=&start=&stop=
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http://realtime2.bsch.au.com/enhir_s...=&start=&stop=
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Yes, once it was clear that Yasi was gonna hit somewhere between Cairns and Townsville, then interviewing the bloke at Hammo Is was a bit ridiculous.
The problem is the rolling coverage which Channel 7 seems to love. Its hard to keep it up to a high standard so they soon resort to bullsh*t.
If you chose to live in NQ, then you must accept the possibility that you will get belted by a cylcone at some point.
However there are lots of things you can do to keep safe, and if you have any doubts then "get outta Dodge" quick.
NQ is a great place to live.
Dr
The problem is the rolling coverage which Channel 7 seems to love. Its hard to keep it up to a high standard so they soon resort to bullsh*t.
If you chose to live in NQ, then you must accept the possibility that you will get belted by a cylcone at some point.
However there are lots of things you can do to keep safe, and if you have any doubts then "get outta Dodge" quick.
NQ is a great place to live.
Dr
Daisy Duck.........Glad you're ok
The worst wind came from 320 deg. There is no hill that direction from the Airport, if there was then the runway would have to be re aligned!! The hill you refer to ( Mt Lumley ) is WSW of the RWY,the plane spotters love it and it wouldn't have shielded the airport anemometer
The whole of Cairns is protected a little by the Barren Gorge National Park Mountain Ranges to the West, Mt Kahipahlim and Chujeba peak being two of them.
The worst wind came from 320 deg. There is no hill that direction from the Airport, if there was then the runway would have to be re aligned!! The hill you refer to ( Mt Lumley ) is WSW of the RWY,the plane spotters love it and it wouldn't have shielded the airport anemometer
The whole of Cairns is protected a little by the Barren Gorge National Park Mountain Ranges to the West, Mt Kahipahlim and Chujeba peak being two of them.
Griffo,
Most runoff will end up in the gulf or the Georgina system, by the looks.
To get to the darling the system would have to be a lot further south. Still early days I guess.
Most runoff will end up in the gulf or the Georgina system, by the looks.
To get to the darling the system would have to be a lot further south. Still early days I guess.