• The TAF from hell

Posted: **Tue Feb 01, 2011 5:41 pm**

TAF YBCS 011031Z 0112/0212 15015G25KT 9999 LIGHT SHOWERS OF RAIN
SCT025 FM011800 16025G35KT 9999 LIGHT SHOWERS OF RAIN BKN025
FM020200 16035G50KT 9999 LIGHT SHOWERS OF RAIN BKN025 FM020800
16050G70KT 6000 RAIN BKN015 FM021100 160100G140KT 2000 RAIN BKN010
OVC015 INTER 0112/0124 4000 SHOWERS OF RAIN BKN018 TEMPO 0200/0208
1000 RAIN BKN015 TEMPO 0208/0212 0500 HEAVY RAIN BKN005 OVC010 RMK T
27 26 25 26 Q 1008 1007 1005 1005

Poor old Cairns... Gateway to the Great Barrier Reef, is directly in the sights of a Category 5 cyclone. It will hit in about 12 hours.

Posted: **Tue Feb 01, 2011 5:48 pm**

That won't be fun at all..

Posted: **Tue Feb 01, 2011 5:50 pm**

I think the same can be said about half the US right now, while under siege from the 6th blizzard in 6 weeks. Sleet, snow, ice, freezing fog, freezing rain, ice pellets, winds howling - you name it! Another week of thousands of cancelled flights...

Posted: **Tue Feb 01, 2011 6:37 pm**

300 km/h winds. 2 metre storm surge in the CBD plus rollers up to 9 metres going down the main street...... Cairns may be wiped out.

Posted: **Tue Feb 01, 2011 7:10 pm**

My front porch is about to be wiped out. 22 inches of white stuff with the addition of +35 knot winds expected here.

KMLI 012341Z 0200/0224 02022G36KT 1/4SM +SN BLSN VV001
FM021000 35022G32KT 1/2SM SN BLSN VV002
FM021400 33018G28KT 3/4SM -SN BLSN OVC005
FM021800 33017G25KT 1SM BLSN BKN012
FM022000 32012G20KT P6SM SCT018

Posted: **Wed Feb 02, 2011 2:55 pm**

Cobra - that has to be the most impressive TAF I've ever seen.

Posted: **Wed Feb 02, 2011 5:08 pm**

It looks like Cairns dodged a bullet. The cyclone veered away and crossed the coast where it wasn't very populated. Those areas have been flattened but, amazingly, no reports of casualties yet. Our weather forecasters gave us about a week prior notice so people were obviously well prepared. Everyone is breathing a sigh of relief because it appears that only property has been damaged...

Posted: **Wed Feb 02, 2011 9:43 pm**

Sounds like the best possible news... glad to hear it!

Posted: **Thu Feb 03, 2011 5:50 am**

For anyone thinking that a cyclone is different than a hurricane or that I was maybe a little alarmist, I offer the following...

Cyclone Yasi superimposed over the lower 48.

Posted: **Thu Feb 03, 2011 1:18 pm**

Maybe that's what left all this white stuff everywhere...

Posted: **Thu Feb 03, 2011 7:48 pm**

Rhino wrote:Maybe that's what left all this white stuff everywhere...

No, that was me, I just got a little too excited.

Posted: **Thu Feb 03, 2011 10:27 pm**

Grab wrote:
Rhino wrote:Maybe that's what left all this white stuff everywhere...
No, that was me, I just got a little too excited.

BAD FORM

Posted: **Fri Feb 04, 2011 12:57 pm**

Posted: **Sun Feb 06, 2011 4:11 pm**

Man this is so looking like Day After Tomorrow stuff.
Glad no one has been hurt.