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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@latitude The Bureau of Meteorology was saying about three hours ago that the eye itself is 70km (43.5 miles) wide.
There’s no chance in hell this has anything to do with Global Warminbg!
So far this year, in Australia, we have had floods in both Qld and Victoria. Now a very large cyclone is bearing down on northern Queensland.
Joe Bastardi was taking about a huge snow storm headed for the USA once more.
Is this just weather or could it be due to either human CO2 emissions or to a disturbance caused by the change in the cycle from hot/dry to cold/wet, that occurs every 30 years or so?
I recall the last major flood in Brisbance in 1974 and the mighty cyclone that flattened Darwin at Christmas of that same year.
Those events also marked the start of the last change in the cycle from cold/wet to hot/ dry.
It was that change that got the IPCC so excited and forecasting that we are going to hell in the CO2 basket.
Could so many “climate experts” be wrong?
Could all this weather/climate be just an indicator of the change in the cycle?
Has anybody got a more coherent data set of climate extremes at the turn of these 30 odd year semi cycles?
Following on the incompetence of the QLD Govt. in keeping the Wivenhoe Dam too full earlier in the month thus allowing the flooding of Brisbane, the Mackay Council had run out of sandbags yesterday and was prosecuting anyone taking sand from the beaches, bloody bureaucrats.
Atomic Hairdryer says:
February 1, 2011 at 2:19 pm
Good luck Queensland, and I for one am glad lil Britain doesn’t get that kind of big weather.
Maybe, but we don’t get buried under glaciers every so often.
I’m not in a compulsory evacuation area but from council advice I am in an orange flood zone (200 metres inland from the esplanade)……I hope I’m high enough above for that advice to be accurate…….If it ain’t?…well I want to make it official that no-one sues anyone cos it ain’t anyone’s fault……if you exclude AGW that is.
Fingers crossed for the roof……..
I’m still pinning hopes on the Cap’n Cook statue being disappeared mind. Be almost worth it all for that.
See you later.
Wow! I am soooo glad I live in the Denver area! We get some big snows, and an occasional deep freeze (like now) but nothing that destroys entire cities.
We don’t get hurricanes, we don’t get earthquakes (not really anyway), we mostly only have tornadoes east of I-25, and if you don’t live in the fire zone in the foothills or near a creek prone to flooding, you don’t have those natural disasters either.
On our side of town, our big storm 18 months ago which may have been a funnel cloud gave us a bit of hail damage but that’s it. Our house was still standing and our vehicles didn’t wash away. We replaced the roof and the plants regrew. I think so birds got knocked on the head from hailstones and died, but they were the only casualties.
Good luck Australia, you really seem to be having a bad year. I hope everyone stays safe and dry.
AS of this moment Yasi is right on top of Willis Island. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Island
Apparently the island has a meteorological post. It even has radar! http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR412.loop.shtml
The cyclone has a giant eye apparently, approx 100 km wide.
Boorman:
“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.”
The size is accurate actually – only the positioning is wrong. See the latest satellite image at:
http://www.bom.gov.au/gms/IDE00035.latest.shtml
It’s a truly massive system and is expected to make landfall on the most populated area of Queensland’s tropical coast.
Ray Boorman says:
February 1, 2011 at 1:57 pm
“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.”
Ray,
If you go to Jo’s website, the image is at the correct scale and has not been sceld up. Jo has a later satellite image than that shown by Anthony. The scale is about right looking at that image.
Regards
Steve
Ray Boorman says:
February 1, 2011 at 1:57 pm
Jeremy says:
February 1, 2011 at 2:27 pm
What’s with you people? No one is making a scientific claim or preparing charts for publication in journals.
The graphic is there to give people SOME IDEA of the size of this cyclone. Nobody doctored anything for personal gain. We’re taking this cyclone very very seriously and irregardless of petty nitpicking by the likes of you lot IT’S A FRIGGIN BIG ONE OK?
And yes the eye is all important, but the cloud band swirling around this monster is going to DUMP RAIN INTO AREAS ONLY RECENTLY RECOVERING FROM FLOODS with already saturated ground.
George E. Smith says:
February 1, 2011 at 1:42 pm
George I’ve always said Queensland is to Australia what Texas is to the US. We like to do things BIG.
Thanks for the sentiments mate.
p.s. You gotta drink VB mate. Fosters is soooo 70’s 80’s
George Smith – Nice of you to try and talk to us in our local vernacular – and you did a pretty good job until you drop the “y’all”. No one in Australia ever says that. Fair Dinkum
See what happens when you Rev the Large Hadron Collider too often!
Memo to staff, due the recent excessive use of the LHC for recreational activities, management has been forced to put a padlock on the Big Red Shiny Button.
Too many high energy particles have been leaking, causing entanglement hiccups all over the planet, seriously team – remember the HR briefing on avoiding the creation of Black Holes, or a combination of “The Day After Tomorrow” meets “THE CORE.”
Also someone has been short changing the honesty box in the cafeteria, I won’t mention any names,….you know who you are.
Appologies to Australia, we were aiming for North Korea.
Batten down the hatches. Hang on in there, and above all good luck.
I predict that this storm will spawn yet another ultra lame ‘disaster’ TV mini- series.
We’ll still have reruns 7 yrs on.
No one will watch them, either.
Darren Parker says:
February 1, 2011 at 3:49 pm
George Smith – Nice of you to try and talk to us in our local vernacular – and you did a pretty good job until you drop the “y’all”. No one in Australia ever says that. Fair Dinkum
George did OK, hey !
Chris & Darren,
All y’alls must know George was just bein’ friendly.☺
“”””” Darren Parker says:
February 1, 2011 at 3:49 pm
George Smith – Nice of you to try and talk to us in our local vernacular – and you did a pretty good job until you drop the “y’all”. No one in Australia ever says that. Fair Dinkum “””””
Well I doubt that many of you say “throw a couple more shrimp on the barbie either.” I know none of the Melbourne clan of my family talks anything like that.
But after 50 yrs in the USA, I have become quite bilingual; well tri-lingual actually, as I’m not bad with the King’s English either.
But I was just relaying to you the sentiments of some of my Texas pals; who also have a lot of Aussie friends; But if those Texan’s sentiments offend you; just forget that I passed on their best wishes.
Now my Mate Harro, who is stuck right in the middle of that storm path; talks a dialect that probably a whole lot of you wouldn’t even understand.
By the way, my Texas Mates actually most often would say y’alls, rather than y’all, but that’s a subtlety, that I haven’t been inducted into yet; maybe a few more years, if I behave myself.
In any case; in whatever language you prefer, we ARE rooting for y’alls to come through this ok. I believe ok translates
into every language on earth; probably even Albert Namatjira would have said “ok.”
“”””” “”””” Darren Parker says:
February 1, 2011 at 3:49 pm
George Smith – Nice of you to try and talk to us in our local vernacular – and you did a pretty good job until you drop the “y’all”. No one in Australia ever says that. Fair Dinkum “”””” “””””
And since I have offended you, I’ll change my order from a Fosters, to a Stein lager. Well on second thoughts both of those are so 1970s, and incidently they are both ladies beer. Real men wouldn’t ever drink a lager. I believe that I grew up on Brown Bomber; and we didn’t allow ladies into the bar; wihout an escort, so we never really got to see what lager looks like.
Now over here, we have Miller lite; now there’s a total nothing swill if there ever was one; looks pretty much the same before and after you drink it. They say it’s made in the Rockies out of yellow snow.
I don’t know what they have against me, but my house is being bombed by tree limbs. Hopefully the trees don’t follow suit. Ice rain sucks.
Its just another dissapative structure.
>George E. Smith says:
>February 1, 2011 at 5:43 pm
>
>Now over here, we have Miller lite; now there’s a total
>nothing swill if there ever was one; looks pretty much
>the same before and after you drink it. They say it’s
>made in the Rockies out of yellow snow.
Miller Lite? Well if you aren’t going to drink then neither will I. 🙂
Well, its just starting to freshen up here. Cairns is about 60kms away and the eye is now likely to miss them (and us) but we will still have 100 kt winds soon its about 40 at present. The house is rated at 110kts so we should be fine.
I’m sure someone will be blaming the Cola Barons on this tomorrow.
Keep up the good work Anthony, you have made a real difference on a very important public policy, not many people get to say that.
that should have been coal not cola. tks
Dear Queensland,
I hate you.
Yours sincerely,
Mother Nature