Oh dear...

[kayshapero]

Checked Weatherunderground - There appears to be a rather large cyclone headed for the middle of Australia. (this may take a while to download if you've not got a high speed connection.)

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[xinef.livejournal.com]

It is a NASTY one. That map shows cat 4, but I've heard cat 5, which is as bad as they come.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

The cyclone was upgrated to cat5 this morning. It's a bad one.

[kayshapero]

The Brisbane Times said as much earlier today. I saw the article shortly after I posted this.

The front page continues to be devoted to the subject, at least at the moment. I don't have a permanent link for the current articles, so that's just the general url.

[17catherines.livejournal.com]

The middle of Australia will probably be OK - the cyclone will have wound down a fair bit by then. But Cairns and Townsville - which are still recovering from the floods - are going to be hit hard.

[hrrunka]

The reports we got on the news here in the UK were really quite scary; up to twenty hours of extremely high winds, a huge storm surge...

[17catherines.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it sounds pretty terrifying, and I'm very glad I live in Victoria. I'm certainly not saying that it will be *fun* in central Australia, but it does look like the coast will be hit worse - and of course, that's where most of the population tends to be.

[hrrunka]

Yeah, they're likely to be catching it now, and the next several hours are going to be tough.