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Cyclone Ita

catsnknots — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 23:19:05 GMT

To all our friends further North stay safe..It could hit landfall anything between a 3 to 5 depending on what model runs true..... get your emergency kits checked and ready... lets hope it passes right across East -West and does not track down south, they have no idea what is going to happen after it hits land on Friday so lets just keep our fingers crossed.

http://www.auscyclonechasers.com/

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ten*teeny*tiny*toes — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 07:09:51 GMT

Oh gosh, the latest advice number 9 is just out and it is now a category 5.

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twyngwyn — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 07:17:07 GMT

http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/about/intensity.shtml

scary!

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Anonymous — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 07:26:32 GMT

stay safe LT if it hits near you.

and everyone else.

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catsnknots — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:57:49 GMT

Hi TTT.... this is way up near you if I remember rightly??? Stay really safe please.... looks like this might track along the coast but it might not be until tomorrow that we know for sure....

I watched a documentary last night about the flood a few years back and they looked into Yasi... omg.. not a good time to catch up on that sort of stuff.

Stay safe.

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bluecat*dancing — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 00:42:33 GMT

Stay safe everyone.

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siggie-reported-by-alarmists — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 01:20:12 GMT

@catsnknots wrote:
Hi TTT.... this is way up near you if I remember rightly??? Stay really safe please.... looks like this might track along the coast but it might not be until tomorrow that we know for sure....

I watched a documentary last night about the flood a few years back and they looked into Yasi... omg.. not a good time to catch up on that sort of stuff.

Stay safe.

Yasi ws a Category 3....Ita is a cat 5.......not good.

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ten*teeny*tiny*toes — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 03:32:41 GMT

Hi Catmad. Ita is a fair way north of us. We're on the central coast/whitsundays.
She's a monster and my thoughts are with those in the far north of the state.
Stay safe everyone.

We'll get some bad weather by the looks of things... This image is from Bom Meteye.

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just_me_karen — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 03:40:02 GMT

Yasmin was a 5? Afaik.

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ten*teeny*tiny*toes — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 03:46:07 GMT

I'm fairly sure Yasi was a 5.

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azureline** — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 03:48:09 GMT

Hope you all stay safe. My grandies from Mackay are here with me atm, thank goodness. Hopefully it slows down to a lower category before it gets to the area.

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bluecat*dancing — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 03:50:16 GMT

I'm glad that you're safe, TTT.

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siggie-reported-by-alarmists — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 04:26:13 GMT

@ten*teeny*tiny*toes wrote:
I'm fairly sure Yasi was a 5.

You're right..... I think I was remembering when it was down graded to a 3....

"Yasi showed signs of further intensification and at 4am on 2nd February and was upgraded to a marginal Category 5 system.

Yasi maintained this intensity and its west-southwest movement, making landfall on the southern tropical coast near Mission Beach between midnight and 1am early on Thursday 3rd February. Being such a strong and large system, Yasi maintained a strong core with damaging winds and heavy rain, tracking westwards across northern Queensland and finally weakened to a tropical low near Mount Isa around 10pm on 3rd February."

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debra9275 — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 04:33:07 GMT

We do get some very extreme weather conditions these days, stay safe everyone up there

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siggie-reported-by-alarmists — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 04:34:45 GMT

Australia always has unfortunately.

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poddster — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 04:36:38 GMT

There always have been "very extreme" weather donditions

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siggie-reported-by-alarmists — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 04:41:10 GMT

How's this for a cyclone history map..only from 1906 to 2006 though

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poddster — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 04:52:25 GMT

Having weathered a category 4 myself, my best wishes for the people who are now about to cop a worse one.

Batten down and keep safe.

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joz*garage — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 05:08:40 GMT

@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:
How's this for a cyclone history map..only from 1906 to 2006 though

*sighs*

and what duff said (((LT)))

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ten*teeny*tiny*toes — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 05:10:38 GMT

The NQ Flood Update facebook page does a good job.
Round the clock, pictures and regular updates.

I'm not sure how to provide a link from my ipad but worth a look for people who want to follow it.