Cyclone Ita: Category five

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misi

Growing Little Guru
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...north-queensland/story-e6frg6nf-1226879686114

A CYCLONE menacing far north Queensland has been upgraded to a powerful category five, prompting warnings of dangerous storm surges and flooding.
Cyclone Ita has been gaining power all day, rising from a category three this morning.
Thousands of people will be directly in its path if, as forecast, it makes landfall north of Cooktown tomorrow night.
It’s expected to bring 280km/h winds when it hits the coast.
There’s also a strong chance its arrival will coincide with a 7pm (AEST) high tide.
This will create dangerous storm surges, about 1.5 metres bigger than usual high tides, from Port Douglas to Cape Melville, Queensland’s Bureau of Meteorology warned this afternoon.
The bureau’s senior forecaster Pradeep Singh says forecast heavy rain will also trigger flash floods.
“It has picked up speed,’’ he said earlier this afternoon.
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@Guess and @TeeEm are you hiding?
 
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okeedokee

The Bastion of Belmont
I'm staying put this time around. :wink2:
This will be a bad one and I hope it hits a remote area where less harm will occur.
 
TeeEm TeeEm

TeeEm

GGG Guru
Staff member
Thanks for the concern Guys, but as Guess has said we are well away from it thank goodness, as the last report said the cyclone has very destructive winds of up to 300 kilometres per hour near the core now. :eek
 
Guess Guess

Guess

Cheeky Guru
Staff member
Downgraded to Category 1.

"At 2:00 pm EST Tropical Cyclone Ita, Category 1, was estimated to be
90 kilometres south southwest of Cooktown and
105 kilometres northwest of Cairns, and
moving south at 6 kilometres per hour."
 
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