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Thread #134889 Message #3086164
Posted By: The Fooles Troupe
31-Jan-11 - 05:29 PM
Thread Name: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
Subject: RE: BS: Floods in Queensland, Australia, 2011
Don't you just hate it when TV 'newstainment' hosts give out nonsense? The 'front' - they said 'eye' was '1,000 km'. The official pronouncement from the mouth of the State Premier was 'front of 500Km', eye of 40 km ... sigh... all this hysteria is of little help ...
The 'MTSAT IR Colorized Loop' does not show in my FF on Ubuntu, it does on the Win 7 box.
Anthony has petered out inland, but dumped a lot of rain. Yasi is expected to dump about 1 metre of rainfall over most of the area affected. It is expected that rain will fall as far south as over the catchment of Wivenhoe (the alleged flood preventer for the Brisbane River), so now there is talk of releasing below the max storage water level (less than the max flood prevention level) in anticipation ... also some of the northern areas flooded recently may experience a resurge of flooding.
Storm surges of some metres are expected in the target area - low coastal floodplains there mean that considerable flooding is expected. The nasty bit will last for about 24 hours, including 12 hours ahead of the eye. People are already leaving the area - warnings are out that it will be too dangerous to try evacuating in the high winds 12-24 hours or so preceding the actual time of 'hit'.
It's far too north to affect us much down here.
Perth took quite a hit from the other one over west.