Tropical Cyclone Yasi cat 5 The BIG one

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   jackavcposted 13 years ago

   Stay safe Queensland. Biggest cyclone in memory about to hit the coast with winds of up to 300 kms an hour.

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      Baileybearposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      hopefully everyone evacuated as instructed

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         jackavcposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         It is about two hours off the coast . Winds will be crazy right now

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   Hovalisposted 13 years ago

   This storm system looks huge! I hope it loses some momentum before it crosses the coast. I'm crossing my fingers for everyone in Northern Queensland tonight. It's only about 7 hours away from the coast right now.
   
   As if Queensland hasn't suffered enough destruction in the last month already.

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      jackavcposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      They cant take a break up there.

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         Hovalisposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         They can't, can they? This cyclone season has had a lot of storms. Let's hope this is the last of the big ones.

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   WryLiltposted 13 years ago

   I'm starting to think South East Qld got off light. The news channels are blanketed with updates on Yasi, as is all my facebook etc. Hope they are all ok.

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      Hovalisposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I just checked the radars at Cairns and Townsville and you can see the rain bands from the edge of the cyclone already. The radar on Willis Island is not sending a signal (it is directly in the path).
      
      This is the link to the Cairns Radar. I'm guessing that later tonight it will lose its signal as the winds intensify. That is one huge mother of a storm. I hope that there are no fatalities, and that everyone has done enough to prepare. 
      
      http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR193.loop.shtml#skip

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   barryrutherfordposted 13 years ago

   It appears that Yasi will now cross Innisfail in around 3 hours time !
   
   Much bigger than TC Larry which hit Innisfail 5 years ago

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      Baileybearposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      bigger than Tracy that wiped out 80% of Darwin in 1974

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         barryrutherfordposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         YES much bigger hopefully the population are more prepared than then due to better  Weather predictions !

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         Hovalisposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         Believe it or not, Tracy was one of the smallest cyclones on record. Not that it didn't pack a punch. I remember the news reports as they came in that Christmas and it was horrific to a child, I must say.

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            Baileybearposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            for a sml one it did a lot of damage from the pics I looked at.  Yasi is being compared with Katrina.
            
            Size of storm nearly as big as USA
            
            http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/fl … 5998762870

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   mcbeanposted 13 years ago

   Yasi is the Aussie Katrina. Category 5 as big as it gets.
   
   Check out this great link showing the magnitude of Yasi by superimposing it over different parts of the world.
   
   http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/envi … 1adhm.html
   
   Good luck tonight Queensland.

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   barryrutherfordposted 13 years ago

   TOP PRIORITY
   TROPICAL CYCLONE ADVICE NUMBER 19
   Issued by the Bureau of Meteorology, Brisbane
   Issued at 6:59pm EST on Wednesday the 2nd of February 2011
   
   A Cyclone WARNING is current for coastal and island communities from Cape
   Flattery to Sarina, extending west across the tropical interior to the Northern
   Territory border.
   
   At 7:00 pm EST Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi, Category 5 was estimated to be 150
   kilometres east northeast of Innisfail and 175 kilometres east of Cairns and
   moving west southwest at 29 kilometres per hour.
   
   SEVERE TROPICAL CYCLONE YASI IS A LARGE AND VERY POWERFUL TROPICAL CYCLONE AND
   POSES AN EXTREMELY SERIOUS THREAT TO LIFE AND PROPERTY WITHIN THE WARNING AREA.
   
   THE VERY DESTRUCTIVE CORE OF CYCLONE YASI WILL CROSS THE COAST NEAR INNISFAIL
   CLOSE TO MIDNIGHT, ACCOMPANIED BY A DANGEROUS STORM TIDE SOUTH OF THE CYCLONE
   CENTRE.
   
   Tropical Cyclone Yasi, CATEGORY 5, will continue to move in a west-southwesterly
   direction and is expected to cross the coast near Innisfail close to midnight.
   
   Coastal residents between Cairns and Ayr are specifically warned of an EXTREMELY
   DANGEROUS SEA LEVEL RISE [i.e. storm tide] as the cyclone approaches, crosses
   the coast and moves inland. The sea is likely to steadily rise up to a level
   which will be VERY DANGEROUSLY above the normal tide, with EXTREMELY DAMAGING
   WAVES, STRONG CURRENTS and FLOODING of low-lying areas extending some way
   inland

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   CMHypnoposted 13 years ago

   They said on the BBC news a few minutes ago that the evacuation centres in Queensland were already full, and that people were now being advised not to travel and stay inside as it was too dangerous.
   
   I just hope that the damage is not as bad as is being predicted, and that there is no loss of life

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      Baileybearposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      they've been getting told to evacuate for past few days.  Too late now to move anywhere.

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   barryrutherfordposted 13 years ago

   Cyclone now appears on the Cairns Radar
   
   
   http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR192.loop.shtml#skip

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      Hovalisposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      If you go to the  512km composite you get a better idea. I posted this link earlier in the thread.

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   barryrutherfordposted 13 years ago

   Apparently its official nobody anywhere in the world's Weather Centres has seen a Cyclones as forboding and large as TC Yasi

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    barryrutherfordposted 13 years ago

    Holy Moly 
    NASA IMAGE of YASI
    
    http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Natura … p?id=49066

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       jackavcposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Thanks for the link Barry that is one scary image. In 2000 I went through cyclone Steve. I thought that was bad. That was only cat 3

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          barryrutherfordposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          There r more links on my hub on the topic

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       china manposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Does this pic show the Solomon Islands in its path or already passed over ?  Are they suffering the same situation as you guys ?

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          barryrutherfordposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          Yasi orignated in FIJI which is South of Solomon Islands

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             jackavcposted 13 years agoin reply to this

             as far as i know none of the south pacific islands have been affected.  It built up most of its froce over the coral sea

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                barryrutherfordposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                Exactly

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    Stevennix2001posted 13 years ago

    i just hope nobody gets hurt during all this, as i heard it's supposed to be a class 5 storm, and it's set to hit australia late wednesday to possibly early thursday according to this one site i checked out.
    
    http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/94263

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       Kangaroo_Jaseposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Thats right now as I type this message Steve (late Wednesday 11:40pm Australia time, east coast),
       
       This thing is massive, this is Hurricane Katrina's twin sister, except this one is slightly more pissed off. Australia just really did not need a storm like this on the back of some of the worst floods in the countries living memory.
       
       I cannot fathom the horror and despair for over 100,000 Australians in the north of Queensland right now. I will find it difficult to sleep tonight.
       
       Here is a trajectory of Tropical Cyclone Yasi for anyone who may not know what part of Australia the predicted path will hit.
       
       http://www.abc.net.au/news/infographics … 2010-2011/

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    Hovalisposted 13 years ago

    This link gives a pretty good idea of the size of this cyclone. Apparently it has slowed down, which means it may hit after high tide, which is good news in terms of the expected storm surge. But they are expecting Yasi to take a day to entirely pass. It is still graded category 5, and there have been reports of waves 9.5m high in Townsville. The storm is yet to cross the coast.
    
    http://www.goes.noaa.gov/sohemi/sohemil … mscol.html

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       jackavcposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       That is a great image.  It give you a really good picture on how big the damn thing is.

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    barryrutherfordposted 13 years ago

    Storm Surge is covering first level of homes in some cases ...

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    agvulpesposted 13 years ago

    I'm sitting here listening to the latest reports and TC Yasi has slowed slightly (from 30km/hour) and the full force is due to hit the coast of Queensland in the next half hour.  However wind gusts of over 100 km/hour have been reported and ocean surges of over 9metres are also being recorded. This will lead to major flooding!
    To give you an idea how big this monster is here is a link to the Townsville 512 km radar and it stretches for over 800 km.
    http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR211.loop.shtml

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    Hovalisposted 13 years ago

    I can't look away from the radar atm. The eye looks to hit Bingil Bay head on, which is just south of Innisfail. I don't know much about Bingil Bay at all. The eye seems to be stretching as far down as Dunk Island. This is so scary.

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       agvulpesposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       I'm just watching the ABC and a resident is being interviewed. It looks very scary to me as well.
       The eye is just about to cross the coast at Mission Beach within the next few minutes.  The worst is just about to come from the Southern side of Yasi.

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    thisgirlslifeposted 13 years ago

    see thats why i love aussies,we all support each other when it matters most.I too am watchin it unfold at this very moment from perth in safety and i have lit a candle in hope of everyone there seeing it through the night.Goodluck guys, stafe safe x

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    Hovalisposted 13 years ago

    The good news is that there are no reports of death so far. The cyclone has now been downgraded to a Category 2 and is over land. We were really lucky that Yasi didn't hit either Cairns or Townsville head on, but there has still been major destruction in the towns hit. This is still on going, needless to say. My thoughts are with all those who have gone through this.

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    barryrutherfordposted 13 years ago

    i have written a hub on the aftermath so far.  there are many telephone towers down as well as major electricity supply lines.
    
    Cardwell seems to have copped a lot of damage more reports due in soon,  Tully houses lost losts of roofs ...

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       jackavcposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Mission beach and cardwell were the worst hit. Houses can be rebuilt so no deaths is a good thing. Storm surge was not as big as predicted so that's another good thing. Thanks for your posts guys

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          Baileybearposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          here's an updated site with links & photos of damage.
          
          Some reports I've heard:
          
          90% of banana crops wiped out; half of sugar crops; rainforests flattened; some coastal towns flattened, traffic lights bent, huge trees snapped
          
          Two big cities didn't get full impact & 'just' had trees ripped & some roofs off
          
          Eye was so big, it was eerie calm for 45 minutes until other side hit.  Was like screaming jet engines for hours

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