We have Snowzilla in the USA…
…and Yasi in Oz. Crikey! Look at the size of this thing a day ago:
Jo Nova has a size comparison for the present.
To give you some idea of just how expansive Yasi is, look at the size of it compared to the continental USA, and the UK just for scale.
Yasi 2011 – Cat4
More here at Jo Nova’s including some links to monitor the cyclone
Note to my friends in Townsville, QLD and Cairns: get outta there! Be safe.
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Tempest Spark 12:18pm
You’re too late, the Greens already declared this man’s fault! http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/02/01/3127184.htm?section=justin
All this is 100% vindicating Svensmark (cosmic rays), Archibald (solar 24 and 25, Corbyn (solar). shame on BOM, Britain Met office etc they are looking like idiots everywhere.
Sunfighter,
we got it all here in OKC, 12″ level, 36″ – 72″ drifts, wind chill -13. Fun day :-/
Since next Xmas will cost about 10% more than last, don’t sweat the storms.
Good luck to my Ozzie friends. Battern down the ole hatches tight
See RADAR here http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR411.loop.shtml
lets see, snowmegeddon is taken, as is snowpocalypse….
I know! It’s SnowgnaRok!
and we shall sing of our battles with the Mighty Ice Crystals in the Halls of Valhalla!
Live cam from Au – QLD
http://www.tmr.qld.gov.au/Traffic-cameras-by-location.aspx
For the Greens to claim this is “CO2” related shows a total lack of any research into Queensland cyclones
http://www.bom.gov.au/cyclone/about/cyclones-eastern-impacts.shtml
If you look at the ones in Jan and Mar 1918, you will see a spot barometric reading similar to what is currently being recorded by modern methods. Sure, we don’t know how big these ones back then were, but if you look at the things that can be compared, you will see thing such as 3-4m storm surges witnessed, compared to the 2m currently being forecast.
I suspect that central and lower west Queensland will also be getting very, very wet in the next few days, as happens every 25-40 years
(its cyclical, y’know !!!).
I think Piers said 29th-30th Jan, seems he was slightly out. 🙂
Crikey Mates !
I know you cobbers have to do things in a big way; just to get noticed on that side of the pizza; but this is just going overboard Mate.
Can’t you tone it down a bit, and not kick up so much of a ruckus ?
Keep your heads down you blokes, and I’ll drink another Fosters to appease the gods; I think y’all just gone and done it this time !
@H.R – Windy Hill appears to be the only commissioned wind farm in QLD, and it’s smack in the path of Yasi.
“”””” wws says:
February 1, 2011 at 1:31 pm
lets see, snowmegeddon is taken, as is snowpocalypse….
I know! It’s SnowgnaRok!
and we shall sing of our battles with the Mighty Ice Crystals in the Halls of Valhalla! “””””
Well dubdub, we don’t do ice here in Valhalla; we’re in the fire business; y’know what I mean ?
So just take your snowcones and move on outa here; before we really set the sparks flying !
H.R. says:
February 1, 2011 at 11:23 am
They are used to it up there (says me safely in Sydney). This one does look pretty big, though, and I hope it does not hit the recently flooded south Queensland, as too many people do not have enough shelter.
As for bird mincers, no. We’ve got all the coal!
To give you some idea of just how expansive Yasi is, look at the size of it compared to the continental USA, and the UK just for scale.
Mate, in Australia we get world-class cyclones. Our cultural cringe couldn’t be satisfied otherwise. 🙂
I just hope those who are expected to be affected in Queensland will weather it with minimum loss of life and property. Yasi is a monster.
See webcams here; http://www.tmr.qld.gov.au/Traffic-cameras-by-location.aspx
The Algoracle talked about snowzilla today:
An Answer for Bill
Come on Anthony, the image you included from Jo’s website makes out the cyclone is at least double its actual size, which is something I thought only the alarmists did. Yasi is now a cat 5 storm, so exaggerating its physical size as Jo did is not needed – the wind damage it inflicts tonight in a strip about 150 km’s wide will be enough.
It doesn’t look as bad when you look at the rain rate radar loop that dja posted.
Sorry, I am a scientist and know about Coreolis. Will use the sarc tag from now on. I guess I took too much for granted.
berniel says:
February 1, 2011 at 11:58 am
This morning (Oz time) Yasi has been upgraded to category 5 and predicted to be the biggest storm to hit Australia in living memory.
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That could be right but lets hope its not. Its on a direct path to Innisfail. They got clobbered in 2006 with a cyclone (hurricane in the US) wind speed of 290 km/hr.
But this one looks bigger. The Australian today Feb 2 in ‘A Plus’ show
that the highest frequency of cyclones was in the 19th Century dropping off considerably during the 20th Century. Yasi looks pissed off and out to make up for some lost appearances. Luckily Brisbane will be spared thank goodness. Our thoughts are with you Northern Queensland.
@Craig Stone says:
February 1, 2011 at 1:46 pm
“@H.R – Windy Hill appears to be the only commissioned wind farm in QLD, and it’s smack in the path of Yasi.”
Thanks, Craig. I’ll try to remember to google Windy Hill after Yasi passes and see if anything is left standing.
@JERoME
“As for bird mincers, no. We’ve got all the coal!”
Yeah, but… it seems the coal is only good for export and not for local consumption. On the bright side, if one of the blades gets blown off and run through a high-ranking government official’s office, they might just change their minds ;o)
The size of the entire thing does not necessarily indicate anything. The size of the high winds near the eye are what matter. I have gone through a hurricane that covered the entire state of Florida when viewed from satellite. It didn’t do much.
Re: ShrNfr says:
Wasn’t Barrie’s business selling windmills for water? Poor Queensland has a surfeit of both. When this storm gets blamed on CAGW, at least it’s an ideal time to question the wisdom of wind power.
Good luck Queensland, and I for one am glad lil Britain doesn’t get that kind of big weather.
Hrm, I suspect it’s the distortion of the graphic versus the angle of the Sat photo, but those comparisons don’t seem accurate. The relative size of Australia between the two images seems drastic, whereas the storm size seems to remain more stable. Is this a fair comparison?
H.R. says:
February 1, 2011 at 2:16 pm
I hope someone trains a video cam on the Windy Hill turbine. I love it so much when they explode and fly apart!