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Re: RAIN IN MACKAY
« Reply #50 on: March 27, 2017, 09:56:03 PM »
Quote from: edz on March 27, 2017, 09:49:52 PM
Cat 4 / 5 storm and yet the live read out tracker thingo is only showing  winds at 48 kts and in places 2.6 m seas close to the coast and 4.8 m seas out wide .Something is screwy with this weather site .
https://www.windytv.com/?-18.188,150.491,6
Yes, it's good for nice pretty colours and swurly lines. But perhaps it's not so good when it's the real serious stuff.

That site/app is pretty cool for general day to day weather and forecasting possible rainfall and average winds.
These more complex events show the limitations of these types of weather apps.

Best to stick with the BOM, check the actual (official) local observations and satellite images when it's kinda life and death type weather.
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Re: RAIN IN MACKAY
« Reply #51 on: March 27, 2017, 10:17:25 PM »
Yep Pete, just thought if they are going to have the display, you would at least have it showing things a bit more accurately though . Have even seen it up on the emergency center headquarters  big screens in a few of the live updates ..
Hope everyone makes it through ok .. everything is crossed and thinking of you all .
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Re: RAIN IN MACKAY
« Reply #52 on: March 27, 2017, 10:46:00 PM »
Hang in there everyone...

From a purely selfish perspective, I hope it's pissed off by the weekend, as we're meant to be going across to Fraser on Saturday morning...

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Re: RAIN IN MACKAY
« Reply #53 on: March 27, 2017, 10:48:52 PM »
James Cook Uni have set up some wind speed recording towers at various locations between Ayr and Proserpine, they're sharing the data at roughly 10 minute intervals.
https://www.jcu.edu.au/cyclone-testing-station/swirlnet
South Bowen has already registered a gust over 180km/hr.

Quote from: MattNQ on March 27, 2017, 09:52:59 PM
Damn Indians. I heard Adani organised the cyclone ......

Probably not the best time to get too political.  :angel:
But I think it would truly be karma at it's greatest if mother nature goes and wrecks the coal miners stuff before the coal miners go and wreck mother nature....
Besides, it was the Indians that helped introduce us all to Karma anyway...  ;D


Looking at the extended radar loop it's been tracking almost straight west for a while now; http://www.theweatherchaser.com/radar-loop/IDR241-bowen
If it stays on this coarse for much longer my money is going to be on the eye crossing around Bowen or Abbot Point.

Personally, I'd rather not see any major destruction from this, but it is part of life in the tropics, and I'm wishing it away from the populated areas. Much better to see a coal terminal blown away then people's houses flattened, tourist resorts destroyed  and farmers crops wrecked.
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Re: RAIN IN MACKAY
« Reply #54 on: March 28, 2017, 02:59:06 AM »
The Adani mob.
Is that anything like the Microsoft help desk people that call you up, tell you how your doing things wrong, and they're the only people who can fix it?
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Re: RAIN IN MACKAY
« Reply #55 on: March 28, 2017, 03:37:14 AM »
Tracker is normally on line around this time, so i'm assuming they've lost power or net connection.

Hope everyone comes through with little or no damage etc
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Re: RAIN IN MACKAY
« Reply #56 on: March 28, 2017, 03:43:21 AM »
Still power but 100kph plus now in Mackay. They're now saying winds could stay well into tomorrow as Deb is moving so slowly. Feeling for people around Whitsunday's right now.
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Re: RAIN IN MACKAY
« Reply #57 on: March 28, 2017, 04:13:51 AM »
    Feeling a tad nervous here..... we have a 6 mtr tide here today  with tidal serge it will be nasty.




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Re: RAIN IN MACKAY
« Reply #58 on: March 28, 2017, 05:28:13 AM »
Hey mate, how's it going?
I've been talking to my son and he's like you. He's done all he can and now it's just sit and wait.


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Re: RAIN IN MACKAY
« Reply #59 on: March 28, 2017, 05:30:58 AM »
Quote from: sol on March 28, 2017, 05:28:13 AM
Hey mate, how's it going?
I've been talking to my son and he's like you. He's done all he can and now it's just sit and wait.


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        Yep mate.......about 100 klm an hour...might miss the destructive section...hopfully.......
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Re: RAIN IN MACKAY
« Reply #60 on: March 28, 2017, 05:53:24 AM »
Hope so!!!! Stay safe mate


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Re: RAIN IN MACKAY
« Reply #61 on: March 28, 2017, 06:03:13 AM »
Quote from: Pete79 on March 27, 2017, 10:48:52 PM
James Cook Uni have set up some wind speed recording towers at various locations between Ayr and Proserpine, they're sharing the data at roughly 10 minute intervals.
https://www.jcu.edu.au/cyclone-testing-station/swirlnet
South Bowen has already registered a gust over 180km/h.
I was too tired last night and was reading the graphs wrong. There was a gust of 50km/h last night from the east (180 degrees).

The peak gust recorded so far from the JCU sites was 75km/h from the one south of Bowen.
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Re: RAIN IN MACKAY
« Reply #62 on: March 28, 2017, 06:08:50 AM »
Watching some of the channel 9 muppets this morning try and beat up the damage caused over night  is almost laughable. Whilst I get this is very serious, geez I wish they would report the news and not try and talk it up as much as possible. One bird in Airlie Beach was showing a "big tree" that had come down and was completely blocking the road, FFS I could have grabbed that BRANCH and dragged it off the road on my own. Stay safe all, gunna be a long day for ya's
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Re: RAIN IN MACKAY
« Reply #63 on: March 28, 2017, 06:25:43 AM »
Quote from: Rumpig on March 28, 2017, 06:08:50 AM
Stay safe all, gunna be a long day for ya's

Ditto that, watching it with concern from afar...............but nothing can describe actually being there.

Biggest problem I think is that it is so slow moving, which means it will park its arse and blow like buggery for an extended period of time. The torrential rain will make the ground up that way bit damp, so the trees will have a hard time hanging on. When they fall onto buildings, that creates a break in the structural barrier for the wind to get in,and you just get an escalating scale of debris and destruction the longer it blows.

small bonus with it moving so slow is that it will now miss the high tide and negate the tidal surge problem a little bit, flip side of the coin is that the longer it sits over warm water, the more energy it can build. Hence the reason there is an outside chance of it building to Cat5.
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Re: RAIN IN MACKAY
« Reply #64 on: March 28, 2017, 06:26:26 AM »
From the BOM site: 0457 Hamilton Island 102 kts highest gust so far.
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Re: RAIN IN MACKAY
« Reply #65 on: March 28, 2017, 06:27:39 AM »
Stay safe if your up there.

Hope you all come through unscathed.
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Re: RAIN IN MACKAY
« Reply #66 on: March 28, 2017, 06:59:24 AM »


Quote from: Spada on March 28, 2017, 06:25:43 AM
Ditto that, watching it with concern from afar...............but nothing can describe actually being there.

Biggest problem I think is that it is so slow moving, which means it will park its arse and blow like buggery for an extended period of time. The torrential rain will make the ground up that way bit damp, so the trees will have a hard time hanging on. When they fall onto buildings, that creates a break in the structural barrier for the wind to get in,and you just get an escalating scale of debris and destruction the longer it blows.

small bonus with it moving so slow is that it will now miss the high tide and negate the tidal surge problem a little bit, flip side of the coin is that the longer it sits over warm water, the more energy it can build. Hence the reason there is an outside chance of it building to Cat5.

Not here in Mack town, due to cross at 10am, (according latest advice) with peak tide of 5.9 at 11am 😕

And I'm 150m from the beach
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Re: RAIN IN MACKAY
« Reply #67 on: March 28, 2017, 07:01:45 AM »
Quote from: Moggy on March 28, 2017, 06:59:24 AM

And I'm 150m from the beach
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Re: RAIN IN MACKAY
« Reply #68 on: March 28, 2017, 07:02:28 AM »
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From a purely selfish perspective, I hope it's pissed off by the weekend, as we're meant to be going across to Fraser on Saturday morning...

Whats plan B?

and there must be more media there than humans...

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Re: RAIN IN MACKAY
« Reply #69 on: March 28, 2017, 07:11:42 AM »
It's right now that glad I installed the genny switch to switchboard when did Reno's 5 yrs ago. Least I get a coffee

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Re: RAIN IN MACKAY
« Reply #70 on: March 28, 2017, 07:18:07 AM »
Stay safe up there guys and gals, the 200km/h gusts have just about hit Hamilton Island by the looks. Bunker down and be safe

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Re: RAIN IN MACKAY
« Reply #71 on: March 28, 2017, 07:21:51 AM »
looks like a crossing between ayr and midge point at about 11am...

starting to really gust here at shoal point...
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Re: RAIN IN MACKAY
« Reply #72 on: March 28, 2017, 07:26:26 AM »
reports of 8m wave recorded off Hay Point ?
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Re: RAIN IN MACKAY
« Reply #73 on: March 28, 2017, 07:59:37 AM »
Quote from: Spada on March 28, 2017, 07:26:26 AM
reports of 8m wave recorded off Hay Point ?

     That would nearly take Moggy out........ :o :o :o :o :o
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Re: RAIN IN MACKAY
« Reply #74 on: March 28, 2017, 08:55:04 AM »
Quote from: paceman on March 28, 2017, 07:21:51 AM
looks like a crossing between ayr and midge point at about 11am...

starting to really gust here at shoal point...

Shoal Point hey.  Used to live right on top of the point years ago.  Weathered a terrifying cyclone there.  Thought the high set house was going to be lifted up and dumped in the ocean.  Good luck and stay safe.

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