The BoM rates Marcia as a Cat 5 now – yet the strongest wind gusts I can find are 208kmh at Middle Percy Island at 4.30am. which indicates Cat 3.
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As I write coming up 11.30am St Lawrence had gusts of 44kmh at 4am and Williamson 96kmh recorded at 8.30am Qld time of course. Williamson looks near fair & square in the path. Can anybody point me to online Cat 5 wind observations ?
Was just looking myself, can’t see any real low pressures either. Looks like another ABC/BoM wishful thinking fizz. Now I will have to look at the NT one!
More of these cyclones please.
Lam had a wind gust at 170kmh at Cape Wessel, and 150kmh at Elcho Island, which is what you would expect from a Cat 2 or 3 cyclone. More wishful thinking expecting stronger gusts?
Williamson only hit 96kmh gusts – Samuel Hill 170kmh at 9.36am and dropping now – Yeppoon currently (1.47pm) 156kmh and still rising. No signs of Cat 5. Yasi was similarly exaggerated.
Another point – 99% of reporting beats up negatives – who has heard the Meeja reporting the mega $millions the rain will be worth to the rural sector?
Truly pathetic that the media can not report what is an ordinary event objectively and in perspective.
Warwick,
Check the Rockhampton Aero site. It seems to show either the whole thing has collapsed or the station has been hit and giving spurious results.
This afternoon right on cue we had a hyperventilating channel 7 TV news reader telling us that “Queensland has never seen anything like this!”
It is showing 113kmh gusts at 3pm Basil – some data columns are patchy but most look OK.
www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ60801/IDQ60801.94374.shtml
Maybe the supercharged wind speeds we are hearing reported in the news media are the result of homogenisation and adjustment, or perhaps it’s all a matter of what “the models” said being preferred to what the actual anemometer readings?
Seriously though the maximum gust recorded at Rockhampton Aero 113 km/h at 3:00pm with the eye supposedly tracking right overhead at category 3 strength doesn’t sit too well with the BOMs characterisation of category 3 cyclones – “winds with typical gusts over open flat land of 165 – 224 km/h”.
BOM missed out on forecasts in the past and now have gone the opposite way making exaggerated predictions. Soon the public will think that they are “crying wolf” but will be unprepared when a real disaster strikes. They have focused on the small cyclone event north of Rockhampton but missed the rain depression in the south east which is causing flooding even cutting the Bruce Highway (M1) on the Sunshine Coast. I believe Caboolture got over 300mm in 6hrs from 9AM. I did see on the TV that there is flooding also on the Gold Coast and down into northern NSW.
Remember Yasi was also hyped 4 years ago
www.warwickhughes.com/blog/?p=811
Marcia looks a more obvious case of shameless exaggeration.
You had to really listen carefully to media to detect tiny signs that some of them may have thought so too.
Last nights 6:00pm channel 7 news led with the comment from the news reader along these lines: Cyclone Marcia with winds of up to 300 km/h . . . . . Dunno where they got 300 km/h from?
By the way the above comment should not to be confused with the measured objective comments channel 7 Victorian viewers now hear from meteorologist, weather presenter, Jane Bunn. Jane is a refreshing breath of fresh air when compared with the endless BOM propaganda messages that accompany the weather news on channel 9 TV news in Victoria.
There is obviously a qld factor in boms forcasts.. i haven’t been able to see any observations of 280 km/ hr plus winds for the last three cat 5 qld cyclones…. seems to me higher end cat 3 cyclones in qld are actually cat 5’s…didn’t you know??? Pity the general public if they do get a true cat 5, or maybe qld will make it a cat 7….
The thermometer at the Rowley Shoals has turned schizophrenic, I wonder how often this happens. www.bom.gov.au/products/IDW60801/IDW60801.94207.shtml
Good spot – already run for a few days – I will be surprised if the errors last for long Tom because they involve big negative numbers .
I checked out the daily data at CDO for Rowley Shoals station 200713 –
www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/
In all 2014 only one day – 21 Dec 2014 – produced a minimum reading – you would think technology would do better than this –
Middle Percy Island and Samuel Hill Aero weather stations don’t appear to be recording any data today 21 Feb?
The missing wind speeds are hiding at the bottom of the ocean?
Warwick, you and your readers are invited to visit my new blog, on reconstructing climate histories from instrumental data:
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Hi Warwick
I’ve attempted to comment twice on this blog. You appear to have turned the science filter on the comments stream “on” and my observations aren’t getting through.
Pity.
Kind regards.
George.
Monster storm Nathan to slam Cooktown with climate-change driven rage as a cat 4
recorded wind gust 41 km/h
I dnt knw where they get their wind readings from coz I’ll tell u now I live in rockhampton and when the eye got close to rocky the winds were way stronger than 113km the gusts got that strong it was pushing trees down to a nilly horizontal angal and I dnt think 113km winds would do that in my opinion I believe that rocky copped it as a weak cat 3 the winds felt like between 150 to 180km when it got close the eye