foxidrive
Retired Admin
Hang on Megabyte! This one is a doozy!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-weather-watch-terrifying-moment-4950461
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-weather-watch-terrifying-moment-4950461
The UK is being blown away
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misi
Growing Little Guru
100 mph:
If I ever decide to fly again I wish that that pilot drive my plane!
Megabyte
Well-Known Member
It was very windy all day yesterday and today! Scotland had the worst of it - over 100mph winds! Here it's around 23mph and it's noisy.. It sounded worse during the night, but that could have just been in my mind
foxidrive
Retired Admin
Gee, 100 mph ! 
I'm happy that you weren't affected as severely. I'm really scared of the thought of stuff like hurricanes
and we had only 75 kph winds a few years back that tossed a trampoline onto the fence and took a whole section down.
I'm not sure if Brisbane has hurricanes but a little bit further North does....
I'm happy that you weren't affected as severely. I'm really scared of the thought of stuff like hurricanes
and we had only 75 kph winds a few years back that tossed a trampoline onto the fence and took a whole section down.
I'm not sure if Brisbane has hurricanes but a little bit further North does....
I'm not sure that Sydney Rd is wide enough !100 mph:
If I ever decide to fly again I wish that that pilot drive my plane!
Gee, 100 mph !
I'm happy that you weren't affected as severely. I'm really scared of the thought of stuff like hurricanes
and we had only 75 kph winds a few years back that tossed a trampoline onto the fence and took a whole section down.
I'm not sure if Brisbane has hurricanes but a little bit further North does....
Excuses Me'os Senor Foxi.... We do not have Hurricanes in the Queens Land... We does haveth the Cyclone ! ( Just like a hurricane but in reverse !!!! )
Cyclones do make it as far south as Brisbane..
foxidrive
Retired Admin
Ahh yes, my old age is showing and I forget which places have them and the other ones, as well as Typhoons.
OMG! I'm never going to NSW again, just in case they make it there too!
That's scary stuff...
Luckily, the last bad one to hit Brisbane was when I was still a young boy , still in Primary school.
We've had a few since then, but they were running out of puff by the time they reached us.
We've had a few since then, but they were running out of puff by the time they reached us.
This is the furtherest south I can find that a Cyclone has travelled.
20 February 1954 This tropical cyclone crossed the coast at Coolangatta with a recorded pressure reading of 973 hPa. Some reports from the Coolangatta/Tweed Heads area had pressure readings to 962 hPa. The worst damage in that area occurred around Cudgen in New South Wales where some houses were blown apart and trees more than 1 m in diameter were twisted out of the ground. A record pressure reading of 982.7 hPa was recorded at Brisbane. Widespread structural damage occurred along the Gold and Sunshine Coasts and around Brisbane. A 0.64 m storm surge was recorded on the Moreton Bay tide gauge, however conditions were much worse on the foreshore with boats in the tree tops at Beachmere. Waves at Kirra brought 2 m of water onto the highway, picking up cars. 900 mm of rain was recorded at Springbrook in the 24 hour period up to landfall. Floods, combined with storm surge on the Nerang River caused the evacuation of several families and a dramatic rescue of people from Macintosh Island. The floods and cyclone then hit the Lismore district, with gales whipping up large waves on the then 11.3 km wide Richmond River. 26 people tragically died from these unprecedented effects.
20 February 1954 This tropical cyclone crossed the coast at Coolangatta with a recorded pressure reading of 973 hPa. Some reports from the Coolangatta/Tweed Heads area had pressure readings to 962 hPa. The worst damage in that area occurred around Cudgen in New South Wales where some houses were blown apart and trees more than 1 m in diameter were twisted out of the ground. A record pressure reading of 982.7 hPa was recorded at Brisbane. Widespread structural damage occurred along the Gold and Sunshine Coasts and around Brisbane. A 0.64 m storm surge was recorded on the Moreton Bay tide gauge, however conditions were much worse on the foreshore with boats in the tree tops at Beachmere. Waves at Kirra brought 2 m of water onto the highway, picking up cars. 900 mm of rain was recorded at Springbrook in the 24 hour period up to landfall. Floods, combined with storm surge on the Nerang River caused the evacuation of several families and a dramatic rescue of people from Macintosh Island. The floods and cyclone then hit the Lismore district, with gales whipping up large waves on the then 11.3 km wide Richmond River. 26 people tragically died from these unprecedented effects.
" Hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons are all the same weather phenomenon; we just use different names for these storms in different places. In the Atlantic and Northeast Pacific, the term “hurricane” is used. The same type of disturbance in the Northwest Pacific is called a “typhoon” and “cyclones” occur in the South Pacific and Indian Ocean. "
foxidrive
Retired Admin
Thanks TeeEm. Me knew that, I just forget which name to use and where.
Probably coz we read about stuff from America and elsewhere and the correct names fall out of ya head, due to dodgy RAM cells. (Random access mind cells)
foxidrive
Retired Admin
That was a shocker! We know someone who lives very close to that NSW place too.
Megabyte
Well-Known Member
You mean it puts down things that hurricanes lift off the ground? ;-)
England has had mini-tornadoes too
In Broken Hill we called them Willy Willies
Ya know how when you pull the plug to drain the water from your sink/basin/bathtub and it swirls around the drain hole in a circle ?
Well, in the land down under, the water swirls in the opposite direction... True fact !
Shullbit! I say that even though I have seen it happen....
Does water go down the drain counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere?
It all depends upon how the water was introduced and the geometric structure of the drain.
One can find both counterclockwise and clockwise flowing drains in both hemispheres. Some people would like you to believe that the Coriolis force affects the flow of water down the drain in sinks, bathtubs, or toilet bowls. Don’t believe them! The Coriolis force is simply too weak to affect such small bodies of water.
In his work “Sur les equations du movements relative des systems des corps” (1835) the French engineer Gaspard Gustav de Coriolis (1792-1843) first described this force. The Coriolis force is caused by the earth’s rotation. It responsible for air being pulled to the right (counterclockwise) in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left (clockwise) in the Southern Hemisphere.
The Coriolis Effect is the observed curved path of moving objects relative to the surface of the Earth. Hurricanes are good visual examples. Hurricane air flow (winds) moves counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere. This is due to the rotation of the Earth. The Coriolis force assists in setting the circulation of a hurricane into motion by producing a rightward (clockwise) deflection that sets up a cyclonic (counterclockwise) circulation around the hurricane low pressure. (For a more in depth discussion on hurricanes see NASA’s Hurricanes: Greatest Storm on Earth.)
What happens at the equator? The Coriolis force is too weak to operate on the moving air at the equator. This means that weather phenomena such as hurricanes are not observed at the equator, although they have been observed at 5 degrees above the equator. In fact, the Coriolis force pulls hurricanes away from the equator.
For a more detailed explanation of the Coriolis Force see Science World, http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/CoriolisForce.html
Megabyte
Well-Known Member
Yes. I found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect#Draining_in_bathtubs_and_toilets
"Contrary to popular misconception, water rotation in home bathrooms under normal circumstances is not related to the Coriolis effect or to the rotation of the earth, and no consistent difference in rotation direction between toilet drainage in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres can be observed"
There's also a lot more info in /Coriolis_effect
"Contrary to popular misconception, water rotation in home bathrooms under normal circumstances is not related to the Coriolis effect or to the rotation of the earth, and no consistent difference in rotation direction between toilet drainage in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres can be observed"
There's also a lot more info in /Coriolis_effect
foxidrive
Retired Admin
What about drunk people
Do they spin in a different direction? 
Do they spin in a different direction?
misi
Growing Little Guru
When I was a young'un, less than 10yo back in Broken Hill, I saw a fellow who was quite, shall we say, emotional, fall to the deck on the other side of the road from where I was playing with my brother outside the Tydvil* while the olds became emotional, and if you haven't been there to see how wide the roads are in Broken Hill, when my father-in-law visited he suggested there was a pub on every corner because by the time you cross the road you need one.
Anyhoo, the emotional chap fell to the concrete footpath and I heard him land. It was a terrible sound, and knowing what it was I can honestly say it's a sound you really don't want to hear.
*The Tydvil - one of the numerous pubs in the "Hill". Often frequented by my parents, brother and myself. The other local was The Excelsior. It just depended on who drove us there as my olds didn't have a car.
--> Hyperlinked --> You can get lost in the pubs of Broken Hill (indeed, late in the evening, “get lost” are the very words I often hear spoken, repeatedly, with all manner of passion). Like the mines beneath, they are a world within a world, connected by a soul, a history and a welcoming warmth that dissolves all the troubles outside, let alone those that dwell hundreds of kilometres away. You don’t often find that in the ‘civilised’ bars of the city, where the old penal colony is alive and well, the customer made to curtsy to the lords behind the bar and the wardens at the door. Just recently, I went for a drink in a Sydney pub, but changed my mind when the barman demanded I remove my hat. My standards aren’t what you’d call high, but I draw the line at being ordered to remove my clothes.