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Old 28th Mar 2017, 03:16
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Via Eyrie: 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.
Equipment failure perhaps ?
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The 'news' report i linked to earlier in the thread gets some comments from "Marcus"...

"...The theory that burning coal leads to more cyclones was quickly dubunked when the cyclones declined their invitation to the Earth Hour party. The theory was then altered to state that there would be more ‘extreme’ cyclones.

Of course, facts have a funny habit of playing their own game and the Climate Church’s unified theory of extreme carbon cyclontivity was also debunked some time ago:".....


Extreme Cyclone Carbon Theory Refuses to Die | Catallaxy Files






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Old 28th Mar 2017, 04:09
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Equipment failure perhaps ?
Me thinks the anemometer tower blew over some time ago!
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Old 28th Mar 2017, 04:20
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Hamilton Island

There is something that doesn't fit about the Hamilton Island observations since 09:42 local this morning.
It is still putting out SPECIs... but the METAR wind direction seems off by a lot. Earlier, it was 270, now it's 250, so the directional thingee's moving around. The wind direction cannot be that. Maybe it's bent 120°...
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Old 28th Mar 2017, 05:01
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Bowen Radar down due 'damage from TC Debbie'. Mackay Radar still ok.
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Old 28th Mar 2017, 05:05
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Media coverage of these type events again are the worst.

Granted it is news, but do they need to send multiple crews to the same location, taking up valuable resources with each reporter and their hangers on. Evacuations are being ordered yet these parasites are arriving in swarms, why do they think they are except.

This morning sunrise are interviewing people outside yet at the same time reporting that authorities are telling residents to stay in doors. Go figure.
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Old 28th Mar 2017, 05:29
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This morning sunrise are interviewing people outside yet at the same time reporting that authorities are telling residents to stay in doors. Go figure.
Having been through Cyclone Tracy, I utterly concur.
Anybody who is voluntarily outside during those sort of conditions has rocks in their head.
Film crews showing roofing iron hanging off roofs and flapping in the breeze ready to rip off and head their way are mental.
The vast majority of fatalities in Tracy were people struck by debris flying at 250kph (the Darwin anemometer also failed at that speed, so nobody knows the ultimate figure).
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Me thinks the anemometer tower blew over some time ago!
Now it's blown over... Wind: //////
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Old 28th Mar 2017, 11:09
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No doubt someone 'forgot' to hangar their bird. Ah well, nice new one inbound from Cessna courtesy of some insurance company I guess...

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Old 29th Mar 2017, 07:14
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I see there is a picture and note on the media saying RAAF are inspecting damaged Chinook parked at Bowen. Did it get stranded there and Debbie took the opportunity to give it a slap as she passed by
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Old 29th Mar 2017, 07:42
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The ATC Tower at Hamilton Island has been destroyed alongside aerodrome navigation and communication equipment. Expensive mess.

I understand the Proserpine pax terminal has reduced in size minus a roof also.
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Why would the RAAF be inspecting a Chinook parked at Bowen. Last time I looked, the Army operated them..
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Old 29th Mar 2017, 11:18
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The ATC Tower at Hamilton Island has been destroyed
Get the Unicom going!
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Bloggsy, as long as it's only with untrained and unqualified people
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Looks like most of the eastern seaboard is about to feel the tail end of Debbie, SE Qld is getting predicted 400-500mm rainfall and affecting things all the way down to Sydney.
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Originally Posted by SnowFella
Looks like most of the eastern seaboard is about to feel the tail end of Debbie, SE Qld is getting predicted 400-500mm rainfall and affecting things all the way down to Sydney.
Wet weather in QLD is now an emergency situation.
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Old 29th Mar 2017, 23:49
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Wet weather in QLD is now an emergency situation.
It is now an emergency, as it will affect Brisbane and Sydney!
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Old 30th Mar 2017, 03:18
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Any photos of Hamilton island tower and facilities?

I see a QLink Dash left there a while ago......
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Old 30th Mar 2017, 06:42
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Ha! Wife is doing a.course at Griffith Uni...class cancelled today as per the decree...one problem is, its online and we are in Melbourne
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Gerry, either way we own it, what happened to it?
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