Glenda

[phantom power]

Category 5, with a central pressure of 898 mb and 160 mph winds. Eye-wall, like 5 miles across. It's another Wilma.

[Slit Skirt]

1. where is this located.. n/t

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3. Off the west coast of Australia

[Viva_La_Revolution]

5. West coast of Australia

:(

http://tcweb.fnmoc.navy.mil/tc-bin/tc_home.cgi

Projections

[commander bunnypants]

2. Bit early for Hurricane season to start?

:hide:

CB

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4. Not for Australia!

[commander bunnypants]

6. good

for us, bad for the AUssies

Hunker down

I would be seriously freaked if it was heading for us

[phantom power]

7. We've all got it coming.

[hatrack]

8. What's the track on Glenda? nt

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[phantom power]

9. It looks like this... (cat-3 impact)

[hatrack]

10. Looks highly unpleasant - Perth's still a ways south, as I recall

At least, I certainly hope so.

Good thing these hurricanes won't hurt the Australian economy the way that an emissions treaty would!!

:eyes:

[phantom power]

11. One of these days...

a major coastal city is going to take a direct hit from a cat-5 storm. Maybe it will be in the US, or maybe some other country.

[Boomer]

12. Is this typical?

I haven't been following cyclone patterns, so I have no frame of reference as to whether this is typical or unusual in terms of landfall location or intensity.

Can anyone fill me in?

[Dead_Parrot]

13. Coming two weeks after Larry...

This either fucking weird, or a really screwed up climate. Pick a box... :shrug:

Southern hemisphere storms tend not to make the news, mainly because most of the land is in the north: the sort of analysis we have for gulf huricanes just doesn't exist. Although you can have fun imagining Typhoon Tip hitting the Gulf coast...