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Old 01-31-2011, 07:48 PM
 
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Looks to be an absolute monster



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Old 01-31-2011, 08:58 PM
 
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Are you serious?
How could a storm already be named with a "Y" when February has just started?
Isn't March also prime cyclone season?

(maybe I'm really out of the loop, for South Pacific storm names )
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Old 01-31-2011, 09:12 PM
 
Location: The western periphery of Terra Australis
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Yep, it looks pretty scary! As far north as Cooktown, blimey!
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Old 01-31-2011, 10:18 PM
 
Location: Newcastle NSW Australia
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Are you serious?
How could a storm already be named with a "Y" when February has just started?
Isn't March also prime cyclone season?

(maybe I'm really out of the loop, for South Pacific storm names )
Some of the big ones have occurred in March, including Cyclone Larry:
Cyclone Larry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There was also a big one that wiped out Exmouth WA in March years ago, some of the WA residents may remember when that occurred.
As long as the water temperatures are still high they can occur.
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Old 01-31-2011, 11:36 PM
 
Location: The end of the road Alaska
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That looks deadly monstrous. I've been watching it for a couple days with my jaw dropped. I assume that's a heavily populated area? How do you get that many people in that huge an area out of harms way!? I'm holding a personal vigil for you all! Are the Kiribati islands in that thing's path?
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Old 02-01-2011, 01:43 AM
 
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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That looks deadly monstrous. I've been watching it for a couple days with my jaw dropped. I assume that's a heavily populated area? How do you get that many people in that huge an area out of harms way!? I'm holding a personal vigil for you all! Are the Kiribati islands in that thing's path?
Fortunantly not
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Old 02-01-2011, 06:36 AM
 
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Okay let me rephrase my question...

If they're now at "Y" does that mean the South Pacific has already recorded 25 named tropical storms this cyclone season?

I'm used to watching hurricane development in the southeastern USA,
and it's usually a bad year if they get all the way up to the "O" or "P" names in the Atlantic.
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Old 02-01-2011, 02:41 PM
 
Location: Brisbane
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Okay let me rephrase my question...

If they're now at "Y" does that mean the South Pacific has already recorded 25 named tropical storms this cyclone season?

I'm used to watching hurricane development in the southeastern USA,
and it's usually a bad year if they get all the way up to the "O" or "P" names in the Atlantic.
Dont think so coldy, Cyclone Anthony crossed the Queensland Coast only last week! Dont think another 24 have developed since. At best i can tell storms are just given random names.
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Old 02-01-2011, 03:20 PM
 
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Now a Cat 5 storm with gusts to 300km/h



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Old 02-01-2011, 03:43 PM
 
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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Cyclone Yasi could bring gusts of up to 320km/h to Queensland | Herald Sun

Just been upgraded to a category 5.

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