Cardwell to St Lawrence - Bad Weather on Way

[nonibbles]

Have a look at the radar folks, its spinning up! #Hopefully its too close to cause any real damage but its gunna happen! #2006 Cyclone No1 here we come!

http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR212.loop.shtml

IDQ10810
BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY
Queensland Region
Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre

Media: This message is issued daily for the information of interested parties.
Media are NOT required to broadcast this message.

TROPICAL CYCLONE OUTLOOK
for the Coral Sea West of Longitude 160 East
Issued at 2:30pm on Thursday the 26th of January 2006

A small low is located off the coast to the north-east of Townsville. This low
is expected to drift north-eastwards over the next 2 to 3 days. There is a
moderate potential that the low may develop into a tropical cyclone about
Sunday.



Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
Queensland

PRIORITY
Coastal Waters Wind Warning
For coastal waters between Cardwell and St. Lawrence
Issued at 11:25 am EST on Friday 27 January 2006

Synoptic Situation
A developing tropical low east of Myrmidon Reef, off the north tropical coast, is expected to move slowly east over the next 24 to 48 hours.

Gale Warning
Townsville to Mackay
SE winds 25/33 knots increasing to 34/40 knots during today, gradually easing below 34 knots during Saturday. Seas 3 to 4 metres in open waters.

Strong Wind Warning
Cardwell to Townsville
S/SE winds 25/33 knots for at least the next 24 hours. Seas 3 metres in open waters.

Strong Wind Warning
Mackay to St. Lawrence
SE/E winds 25/33 knots for at least the next 24 hours. Seas 3 metres.

The next warning will be issued by 5 pm EST.

Please be aware
Wind gusts can be a further 40 percent stronger than the averages given here, and maximum waves may be up to twice the height.

IDQ20008
SECURITE

HIGH SEAS WEATHER WARNING FOR METAREA 10 ISSUED BY THE AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF
METEOROLOGY, BRISBANE 0042 UTC 27 January 2006

GALE WARNING FOR NORTH EASTERN AREA

SITUATION
A developing tropical low with a central pressure of 997 hectopascals located at
270000 UTC near Myrmidon Reef at 18.3 south 147.4 east and near stationary.
Position #Fair.

AREA AFFECTED
Within 60 nautical miles of the centre in the northern semicircle and 120
nautical miles of the centre in the southern semicircle.
FORECAST
Maximum winds to 30 knots near the centre increasing to 40 knots over the next
12 hours.

Elsewhere in the warning areas, clockwise winds at 20 to 30 knots increasing to
30 to 40 knots over the next 12 hours. #

Rough seas becoming very rough with increasing easterly and northwesterly swells

Forecast position at 271200UTC 18.1 degrees south and 147.7 degrees east with
central pressure 995 hPa and maximum winds to 40 knots.

Forecast position at 280000UTC 18.4 degrees south and 148.9 degrees east with
central pressure 992 hPa and maximum winds to 45 knots.



REMARKS
All ships in the area please send weather reports every three hours. #Regular
weather observing ships use normal channels. #Other ships please use either
email to marwxqld@bom.gov.au or fax to +61732398776 or satellite to SAC 41
through Land Earth Station Perth 222.

WEATHER BRISBANE

[juicyfruit]

It's pretty watching a cyclone forming

[thumps]

then i get stuck inside all day with you....geeeezzzzzz ;)


quick ...get more fishing videos ;D ;D

[juicyfruit]

geeeeezus, married less then a month and you're sick of me already darl, tsk tsk. :-*

Ever asked yourself 'why' I'm in Ausfish so much? ;)

Best thing for not being stuck in the house with me is to take me fishing where the weather is fine ;D

[smiley=iloveyou.gif]Thumps

Juicy

P.S. There are no more fishing videos available that you haven’t already seen

[nonibbles]

P.S. There are no more fishing videos available that you haven’t already seen


send 'em my way then (I always was a cheapskate)

Well, the rains stopped for now but gettin' real stuffy here.

[juicyfruit]

We use the public library system (we are poor).
We scan the market.
Find what we want.
Put a request order into the library.
We usually have it with-in a month.
I do not endorse burning a copy. ;)


Stuffy means a thunderstorm is on the way :)
Still raining here, and will be for sometime, until the monsoonal trough moves down the coast, or out to sea (to make himself into a cyclone).

A few years ago I was informed, that depending on the location the cyclone is formed (in relation to the weather station) is the way the cyclone is named. One station has an all female list of names, where the other has an all male list of names. (I think one of the stations is in Fijian waters and one is in Australian waters).

Is this true, or is someone playing the easy game of 'fool the blonde'.

Juicy

[Richard]

I thnk the naming system just goes alphabetical, regardless of where it is in australia.

They alternate sexes too from letter to letter.


From the BoM website ---

Naming the beast
The practice of naming cyclones, first introduced by the colourful Queensland Government Meteorologist Clement Wragge in the late 19th Century, lapsed with his retirement in 1902, but was re-introduced by the Bureau of Meteorology in 1963. Initially, cyclones were given female names, but in keeping with the spirit of "equal opportunity" that emerged in the 1970s, Australian cyclones were allocated both male and female names from 1975.



Thank god the rain has let up a bit here in mackay for an hour or two. It always rains just when you try to start moving house..


Richard

[Richard]

Found some even more detailed info on the naming of cyclones. Seems that each tropical cyclone warning centre (perth, darwin and brisbane) have their own set of names to go by.


You can check out all the names here - http://www.bom.gov.au/catalogue/warnings/cyclone_names.shtml

So we might be looking at cyclone "Jim" forming off the east coast.

Richard

[juicyfruit]

Richard,

Thank you. My search of the web on this topic wasn't as fruitful as yours. Plus I think at that time of posting I was feeling rather lazy.

Thank you also for not playing the easy game of 'fool the blonde'

Where you moving to?

Juicy

[Richard]

In west mackay at the moment and moving to west mackay again, only a street away :)

Still a bugger having to move everything though - you have to pick your spots between the drizzle - nnnnnnnnnnow, no, nnnnow, just wait, now now now.. quick before it starts again.

At least if we don't get a cyclone out of it we might get some decent rain. I already have to mow the lawn once a week to keep ahead of it. But i wish we'd get some decent weather to go fishing in - going crazy not being able to go out to the reef or go snorkelling. Restricted to the creeks.


Richard

[BobbyJ123]

Here you go, the latest on Jim
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ65002.shtml

[2DKnBJ]

No doubt there are a few people dusting their boards off and heading to the nearest beach.Florence bay on Maggie was my fovourite.
Cheers Dazza

[juicyfruit]

The shame about having a reef is that we don't have a big surf to surf, until a cyclone comes close.

Will brb on this post, Thumps is asking for some lunch and I have to go make him some, seems his arms and legs have fallen off and his heart has stopped beating rendering him unable to make himself some lunch.......lmao

Juicy

[thumps]

At 11am EST, Tropical Cyclone Jim, Category 1 with central pressure 990 hPa, was
located near 17S 149E, 370 km east of Innisfail, and is moving to the
north-northeast at 8 km/hr. The cyclone is expected to turn to a more easterly
track today, and continue this motion for at least the next 24 to 48 hours.

Tropical Cyclone Jim poses no immediate threat to the coast of Queensland.

The next Information Bulletin will be issued at 5 pm EST on Saturday 28 January.

[devocean]

Yes once again crabbing trip destroyed by crap weather and whats the alternative mowing the grass every 3 days because it wont stop raining.