Townsville's Mini Cyclone

[Drakand]

Apparently Townsville had a very localised mini-cyclone last night....which i slept through...and didn't realise till i got to work...so i'm going with the fact that my place can't have taken damage otherwise my partner would have woken me up, i know she was awake sometime during the night.

http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/article/2012/03/20/315531_news.html

considering it hasn't really stopped raining for almost a fortnight now, it was bound to happen, apparently it was localised to only a few suburbs though. thought i'd post it cause its kind of interesting...to me anyway...and any other Gon'ners who are in Townsville or North Qld and catching the wet.

[Drakand]

http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/ar ... _news.html
with images.

[Kremmen]

cirtainly looks like it to me.

we had a lot of rain and a few strong gusts, but nohing compared to that.

[Disco LT]

Glad you came through it unscathed Drak, others weren't so lucky Lots of folk around NSW/QLD dealing with flood/storm damage at the moment.

[Dean]

QLD must have the worst weather in the country


after Darwin

[Kremmen]

QLD must have the worst weather in the country


after Darwin

We call it weather
others call it climate change

[Drakand]

yeah we definately got off much luckier than the southern areas affected. It has literally smashed through one or two suburbs and left majority of city unscathed. Compared to what everyone has experienced down south we are very lucky.

I'm just concerned about the fact that there has been no let up at all in weather and this is all happening later in the year than normal, generally Jan/Feb is our main danger months, all part of the changing weather patterns i guess.

[Kremmen]

If you look at the Tropical Cyclone Information for the Australian Region at the BOM you will find March si actually the most productive cyclone month.

http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/silo/cycl ... 2006&loc=0

If you look at the last 100 years it looks like a kid went crazy with a box of coloring in pencils.

[Drakand]

fair enough i'll continue my worries then

[Artful-dodgeR]

*sets to 101 years of cyclones*

*sees none near Sydney*

[CelticAngel82]

much of Cairns got flooded from all the rain.. started to worry when I looked out to the street sunday night at 11:30pm and thought "hang on... since when does the street lights reflect off the road so much.... " then i realised we were flooded in. both ends of the street were cut off.




and some crazy lady playing in the gutter water..


it was actually shallow there. as we were taking the photos, the water was still slowly rising - coming from both creeks and swampland near us. by about 12:30 the rain had stopped for most of the night and water had gone down by morning. Dunno how the ute across the road faired... while we were out there, water was halfway up it.

[Drakand]

wow, hope things are ok.

Since the storm Townsville hasn't had much rain. 2 suburbs were fairly heavily devastated but apart from that its pretty much business as usual here.

[CelticAngel82]

we had a massive downpour again yesterday, although not as bad as last monday.. some minor roads were under... a few bridges/creeks/rivers etc flooded... not sure if anyones houses got damaged.. it was weird though. 10am looked like 6am.. dark etc. our street flooded again.

[Barramack]

We get similar events up in Darwin - I think the technical term is 'line squall' but the Aboriginal people call them 'knock em down storms'. They mostly occur at the end of the wet season (March-April) and can take people by surprise.

I got caught in one several years back while fishing. I could see this monster black horizon approaching and zipped back to the ramp. Unfortunately the tide was too low to get the boat back on the trailer. So I had to stand in the water holding the boat while being lashed by 110km/h winds. Came within a whisker of losing the boat. I forgot to take down the canopy, which acted like a sail. Lucky 2 blokes were able to help. Driving back home trees were down everywhere and roads blocked.

[Drakand]

Yes Barramack i've been through one of those storms myself, bunkered down in a 4WD as close to a slight incline in land next to the road as possible, got through it fairly ok but damn, stuff being exposed during those storms, glad you weren't hurt yourself!