Extreme Weather
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so yesterday was a nearly unprecedented rain event. It is not, for now, raining in Cairns today, but there is rain forecast for later, and unfortunately in river catchment areas.
Still a lot of stranded people. The photos of the Port Douglas road don't look promising for that opening any time soon.
we're on water for emergency use only as the supplies of treated water dwindles, and the system is fucked up. some places still without power.
Been an interesting week
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@mariner4life doesn't seem right to upvote, hope you bought enough food and water, gas, before this rolled in?
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food maybe? booze definitely
and i filled all my big water canisters yesterday.
otherwise i'll just pull buckets out of the creekif the roads don't open she's gonna be a sad christmas though
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Apparently the Palmerston Highway is impassable unless you have a General Lee:
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Barron River is the flood plain on which the Cairns airport is situated ...
See the Cairns weather station was knocked out if action. Assume it was situated at the airport.
Talking (well, Teamsing) to a staff member in Cairns today. She's OK but friends on the northern beaches have "lost their house". Dunno what that actually means, but fully shit regardless.
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@antipodean those graphics give such a different perspective, there was one when Gabrielle hit NZ earlier in the year, as she passed Aus she sucked in all the cloud and rain from Aus to take to NZ, these weather systems are scary...
I remember Bola, we were camping, got told we should go home as a cyclone was coming...when she hit, huge swells rolling into Matai Bay, windy af, we thought we should go home...but the data back then was obviously not as readily available.
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Different form of storms smashing the East coast these last couple of days.
Seven dead across a couple of states.
Tenth man confirmed dead following violent storms across country's east coast
Severe storms across Australia's east coast have now claimed the lives of ten people as the clean-up continues across several states.
100s of 1000s lost power on the Goldie and in Brisie with winds equivalent to a Cat 2 cyclone.
Fishing trip capsized with loss of life, and a 3 people lost in storm drains, in two separate incidents (including a 9yo).
Locally not much more than usual summer storms, except for a lightning strike like next door a couple of nights ago, and thunder experienced on the Richter scale last night (very very frightening).
Apparently a mass of unstable air passing over getting more unstable with the heat. Due to crank up again on the weekend it seems.
Seems Sydney copping it this arvo ... video from random Twitter acount ...
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@booboo said in Extreme Weather:
Different form of storms smashing the East coast these last couple of days.
Seven dead across a couple of states.
Tenth man confirmed dead following violent storms across country's east coast
Severe storms across Australia's east coast have now claimed the lives of ten people as the clean-up continues across several states.
100s of 1000s lost power on the Goldie and in Brisie with winds equivalent to a Cat 2 cyclone.
Fishing trip capsized with loss of life, and a 3 people lost in storm drains, in two separate incidents (including a 9yo).
Two of whom were former Qld rugby players.
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Updates ...
SEQ getting smashed again. This time north of Brissy and the Sunny Coast.
Two people struck by lightning as wild weather threatens storm-ravaged Queensland and NSW
Queenslanders are being urged to remain vigilant across the weekend, with destructive wind gusts, giant hail, heavy rainfall and flash flooding predicted.
Reports from the GC is that there's still power out to large parts from the Christmas/Boxing Day storms. As of yesterday there were still 22 traffic signals still not working, and parts of the hinterland aren't going to get power for another two weeks.
Oh, and the aliens from Independence Day have arrived:
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Where are you @booboo ?
We are in Byron right now, nothing threatening around here other than a few shirtless bogans
@mariner4life reckons infrastructure further north around Port is still fucked though
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@voodoo said in Extreme Weather:
Where are you @booboo ?
We are in Byron right now, nothing threatening around here other than a few shirtless bogans
@mariner4life reckons infrastructure further north around Port is still fucked though
Hervey Bay. Just to the north of the storm on that radar image above.
Nothing to write home about for us. 40-50mm in few hours, only the first 10-15 minutes of any intensity (BOM IFD data suggests maybe 5 year for 15 minutes). Winds were stong but not concerning. Thunder and lightning less than very very frightening. Decent bog standard summer storm. Intensity had dropped as it headed north.
Dropped the temperature 10degs though. Which was good.
Yeah, Cairns and further north copped a shitload. They'll have a fair amount of restoration to do.
