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.

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

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

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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."

Australia always has unfortunately.

There always have been "very extreme" weather donditions

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

 

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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@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

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

 

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*sighs*

 

 

 

 

 

and what duff said (((LT)))

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.