Interesting times...

[emfrat]

Well, there is plenty of food, enough coolant, and even if it does flood and cut off the town, we can still walk to the pub - we have a choice of two for about 400 residents.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensl ... 3iuaw.html

[Ian Warren]

Two pubs for 400, the kids drink too .. crikey the competition

[omitchell]

And live coverage of the cyclone. Bugger the cricket...

[Ian Warren]

I am a storm watcher myself .. sport watching ... fif fa fa farrr Cricket ... BORING .. give me some weather watch any day of the week !

[Splitpin]

BUT!! still take care Mike.
These things have a habit of turning nasty.

[emfrat]

We will get the fringe of it, so there will be heavy rain, and a flood is likely, although I expect the 'normal' knee-deep one, not the chest-deep one of 2011.
Very unusual to get a cyclone so far south this late in the season, and of course Cat 5 is really exceptional - folk in Central Qld will be hit hard.

[Ian Warren]

Strange thing here Mike, the weather .. normally we get good electrical storms but this year has been a fizzler .. I'm not keen on knee deep come to think chess deep water but I do like watching the storms roll in.

[emfrat]

Details of Severe Tropical Cyclone Marcia at 5:00 am EST:

Intensity: Category 5, sustained winds near the centre of 205 kilometres per hour with wind gusts to 285 kilometres per hour.

Location: within 9 kilometres of 21.8 degrees South 150.5 degrees East, estimated to be 120 kilometres east northeast of St Lawrence and 150 kilometres north of Yeppoon.

Movement: south at 16 kilometres per hour.

Severe Tropical Cyclone Marcia, category 5, is expected to continue moving in a southerly direction towards the Queensland coast, and make landfall between St. Lawrence and Hervey Bay later today.

A separate Severe Weather Warning is current south of Double Island Point and inland to eastern parts of the Darling Downs and Granite Belt.

Might fire up the An-2 and practice my flying backwards skills

[emfrat]

Odd pattern around NZ

[Ian Warren]

Details of Severe Tropical Cyclone Marcia at 5:00 am EST:

Might fire up the An-2 and practice my flying backwards skills

I thought that could fly backwards anyway

[Ian Warren]

Odd pattern around NZ

That's the "You can get forward movement in this area" ... flying your AN-2 marked by a circle

[emfrat]

[Fozzer]

Following it on BBC News....
..remembering that we are 12 hours behind you...>>>

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-31544694

Looks a bit terrifying...and expensive!

Paul..Weather Watcher...!

[Ian Warren]

Funny, they had a reporter laughing her head off whilst standing in the middle off it ..... doing the reporting

[emfrat]

Oh well, here comes the rain...it's only a Tropical Low now, so not much wind either.

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR503.loop.shtml#skip

[Ian Warren]

Oh well, here comes the rain...it's only a Tropical Low now, so not much wind either.

Oh Bugger, just a little rain storm ..... instead off waist deep .... or the knee deep ... its going to have to be feet deep .......... Guess now your going to reply .. you smart ass BUGGER

[emfrat]

Seems to be heading out to sea again. On the radar, my place is on the horizontal axis, below the M of Marburg and a bit to the left of the A in Amberley.
(But you won't see me, cos I've got my tinfoil hat on )

[Ian Warren]

I did buy a roll of tin foil .... but I still keep showing up

[Fozzer]

I did buy a roll of tin foil .... but I still keep showing up

Watch out for lightning, with that tin-foil hat on Ian...

..good for roast joints....bad for heads!... ...!

Paul.... ...!

[Sonnyj]

Seems to be heading out to sea again. On the radar, my place is on the horizontal axis, below the M of Marburg and a bit to the left of the A in Amberley.
(But you won't see me, cos I've got my tinfoil hat on )

Nice portrait