http://www.weather.com/weather/hurricanecentral/tracker
It's a mother of a storm this one.... Total path of destruction, storm, and tropical low is over 4,000km.
It's going a long way north too. It's weird actually. If you lay it over the East Coast Of Aus, with matching North/South coordinates, it starts at Mackay, slides the whole way along the coast, past the Merimbula Corona Event Sites, onto to Tassie, and then half way to Antartica !! Weird !
Edit - correction - storm path is equivalent of Cairns to just off the coast of Antartica!
http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16058113
Wonder how the goverment will pay for the damage to infrastructure?
Create a flood tax.
I've been in NYC since Friday and have seen nothing but a bit of rain. Totally blown out of proportion by the media. It was a bit windy down in Virginia and a little isolated flooding in New Jersey but nothing that doesn't happen regularly all over the world. I can't believe the whole city shut down, so pissed off and bored. All the news channels on TV here have been 24hr about the "hurricane" that was never above cat 2. I don't think storms in Aus are called a cyclone until cat 3 and above, is that right? The reporting is all hyped up fluff about nothing.
See Australia does everything bigger and better.
Irene is a minnow compared to Yasi. Get a real storm Yanks!
5 Knots = 5.8 MPH
10 Knots = 11.5 MPH
15 Knots = 17.3 MPH
20 Knots = 23.0 MPH
25 Knots = 28.8 MPH
30 Knots = 34.6 MPH
35 Knots = 40.3 MPH
40 Knots = 46.1 MPH
45 Knots = 51.8 MPH
50 Knots = 57.6 MPH
55 Knots = 63.4 MPH
60 Knots = 69.1 MPH
65 Knots = 74.9 MPH
70 Knots = 80.6 MPH
75 Knots = 86.4 MPH
80 Knots = 92.2 MPH
85 Knots = 97.9 MPH
90 Knots = 103.7 MPH
95 Knots = 109.4 MPH
100 Knots = 115.2 MPH
105 Knots = 121.0 MPH
110 Knots = 126.7 MPH
115 Knots = 132.5 MPH
120 Knots = 138.2 MPH
125 Knots = 144.0 MPH
130 Knots = 149.8 MPH
135 Knots = 155.5 MPH
140 Knots = 161.3 MPH
145 Knots = 167.0 MPH
150 Knots = 172.8 MPH
Beaufort Wind Scale
Windspeed
in MPH Description - Visible Condition
0 Calm smoke rises vertically
1 - 4 Light air direction of wind shown by smoke but not by wind vanes
4 - 7 Light breeze wind felt on face; leaves rustle; ordinary wind vane moved by wind
8 - 12 Gentle breeze leaves and small twigs in constant motion; wind extends light flag
13 - 18 Moderate breeze raises dust and loose paper; small branches are moved
19 - 24 Fresh breeze small trees in leaf begin to sway; crested wavelets form on inland water
25 - 31 Strong breeze large branches in motion; telephone wires whistle; umbrellas used with difficulty
32 - 38 Moderate gale whole trees in motion; inconvenience in walking against wind
39 - 46 Fresh gale breaks twigs off trees; generally impedes progress
47 - 54 Strong gale slight structural damage occurs; chimney pots and slates removed
55 - 63 Whole gale trees uprooted; considerable structural damage occurs
64 - 72 Storm very rarely experienced; accompanied by widespread damage
73+ Hurricane devastation occurs
so.. according to CNN its time to rig up a 4.7
I live on about 20 miles from the sound where the eye traveled just after landfall. We were in the eye wall for about 5 hours. I myself measured winds for several hours in excess of 55 mph on the ground in a small pasture surrounded by trees . It rained 13 inches in 24 hours. Trees down everywhere. I expect electricity will be out for more than a week. Glad to have a generator, but tired of listening to it. Storm much worse than I expected probably due to slow forward speed.
