Confused Odette

[Cliff Rogers]

Which way will she go? :?

[ptc]

Cliff
kick it down here we need some.

[Rossluck]

Cliff
kick it down here we need some.


You can have some PTC, as long as it goes past us slowwwwwly.

You must be a bit nervous, Cliff, after the last one ....

[Wood Borer]

It couldn't be strong enough to blow away that big lathe though Cliff.

[Wood Butcher]

According to the Sunday Mail Yesterday, this rain system "has the potential" to fill all of SE QLD's dams. I hope to hell it does!

[Cliff Rogers]

It is gone.... not rain. no wind, nothing.

[Bleedin Thumb]

I was working on Sth Molle Island years ago when Cyclone Kerry circled us 3 times from memory. I left and went to Clownsville only to get hit by another one. I copped 10 weeks solid rain that year - 1978?

[Cliff Rogers]

1 March 1979 – Category 1 Cyclone

Kerry crossed the coast at Proserpine, 80 km to the

north.


There was another Cyclone called Kerry in Jan 2005, it went much further south & didn't cross the coast.

[Felder]

I was working on Sth Molle Island years ago when Cyclone Kerry circled us 3 times from memory.

That's impressive! The last time I circled South Molle island I needed a map!





:p

[Bleedin Thumb]

1 March 1979 – Category 1 Cyclone

Kerry crossed the coast at Proserpine, 80 km to the


north.



There was another Cyclone called Kerry in Jan 2005, it went much further south & didn't cross the coast.







Thanks Cliff, Kerry (1979) has a couple of claims to fame namely:

1. It had the largest eye of any cyclone ever recorded at 90 km
2. It was the longest lived cyclone ever recorded, 13 Feb - 6 Mar.
3. It caused my curtains to rot.

I also note that they have retired the name - why do they do that?

[masoth]

The only member of my family to be born in a hospital, I was born at the Cairns Base during the strongest cyclone recorded to that time .......... and I'm still 'turning'.:whistling2:

soth

[Cliff Rogers]

... Kerry (1979) ...
1. It had the largest eye of any cyclone ever recorded at 90 km.....

I also note that they have retired the name - why do they do that?
90kms was the radius of the eye, it was 180Kms across the eye.
A name remains on the list until its corresponding cyclone severely impacts the coast & then it is retired.
The list cycles over about every 10 years.
The reason that there was another cyclone Kerry in 2005 it that it formed outside of Australian waters & was named by another country.


...I was born at the Cairns Base during the strongest cyclone recorded to that time ..........
Was that 20 January, 1930?
Un-named Cyclone estimated to be a catogory 1-2 finally crossed at Mossman.
6 deaths due to flooding. Huge stock losses.

[Felder]

Un-named Cyclone .......

Let's call it "Ruddigar". :)

[Cliff Rogers]

Let's call it "Ruddigar". :)
You can't name something that has been gone for 77 years. :D

PS. Why Ruddigar? Why not Nadnerb? :?

[Felder]

You can't name something that has been gone for 77 years. :D
Not with that sort of attitude, you can't.


PS. Why Ruddigar? Why not Nadnerb? :?
:D:D

[masoth]

"Was that 20 January, 1930?
Un-named Cyclone estimated to be a catogory 1-2 finally crossed at Mossman.
6 deaths due to flooding. Huge stock losses."

Cliff, did you search for this info, or are you a weather nut too?

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[Bleedin Thumb]

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Cliff, did you search for this info, or are you a weather nut too?

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Yep his nickname is Eric, he owns a rain guage and presipitation is his middle name.:D

[Cliff Rogers]

"...Cliff, did you search for this info, or are you a weather nut too?
Both.
I grew up in the bush & we watched the weather 'cos we didn't get TV until '73. :D ( Mostly the weather is more interesting than TV anyway. :rolleyes: )
I go to the BOM site every morning & often several times a day if there is a significant event happening.

I subtracted 77 from 2007 & did a search on the BOM site for cyclones in 1930. :wink:

[Felder]

I subtracted 77 from 2007 & did a search on the BOM site for cyclones in 1930.......


.......found one and named it 'Ruddigar'. :)

[Cliff Rogers]

.......found one and named it 'Ruddigar'. :)

:stupid:
Ruddigar the Budgerigar with a proverb from Nabnerb? :rolleyes:
:jacked: