Cyclone Larry Gallery

[KatDaddy]

I have been out of the weather loop during last week (in Mobile, ALA stuck on a drilling exploration ship doing software upgrades) and just read about the CAT 5 Australia Cyclone that hit at 180MPH last week.

http://www.news.com.au/index/0,10121,5001104,00.html

Seeing these photos brings back home as the Atlantic Hurricane season approaches.

[Weatherfreak000]

Awesome, thanks

[Aquawind]

Wow.. the audio slideshows looks all to familiar. Same issues with recovery and rescue as we have here.

Same animal different side of the planet is all..

Paul

[Extremeweatherguy]

Though lots of damage...none of those photos really look like 180mph Cat. 5 force damage (which is the strength Larry was suppose to be at landfall). Most of those pictures I looked at seemed to only show Cat. 1/2 force damage, and even the very bad damage pictures could have been done by Cat. 3/4 force winds.

[JtSmarts]

Though lots of damage...none of those photos really look like 180mph Cat. 5 force damage (which is the strength Larry was suppose to be at landfall). Most of those pictures I looked at seemed to only show Cat. 1/2 force damage, and even the very bad damage pictures could have been done by Cat. 3/4 force winds.

Gusts were around 180mph sustained winds where somewhere between 120-140mph.

[conestogo_flood]

A women I worked for, her sister lives in the area where the cyclone hit. She has yet to establish contact with her. I haven't seen much media coverage. How bad is it in Australia? Did Wati ever hit?

[ROCK]

Though lots of damage...none of those photos really look like 180mph Cat. 5 force damage (which is the strength Larry was suppose to be at landfall). Most of those pictures I looked at seemed to only show Cat. 1/2 force damage, and even the very bad damage pictures could have been done by Cat. 3/4 force winds.

ageed....

[AussieMark]

A women I worked for, her sister lives in the area where the cyclone hit. She has yet to establish contact with her. I haven't seen much media coverage. How bad is it in Australia? Did Wati ever hit?

Wati never hit

damages to agriculture is very severe tho

i.e around 80-90% of australia's banana supply comes from North Queensland. around 80% was wiped out. will take about 18 months for the area to be able to supply bananas basically. the damage bill for that is at least $300 Million. s a result the costs have doubled nationwide since the cyclone.

Around $200 Million worth of the sugar cane was wiped out also or 10% of australias sugar cane production.

around $15 Million worth of Advacado were also wiped out which is between 15% - 20% of the national crop.

its the costliest cyclone since 1974.

the costliest natural disaster since the 1999 Sydney hailstorm which caused damages of $1.7 Billion

[AussieMark]

Though lots of damage...none of those photos really look like 180mph Cat. 5 force damage (which is the strength Larry was suppose to be at landfall). Most of those pictures I looked at seemed to only show Cat. 1/2 force damage, and even the very bad damage pictures could have been done by Cat. 3/4 force winds.

no-one ever said that sutained winds were at 180 mph unless it was your stupid media

when they reported it here it was like winds of up to 285 km/h which I concluded they were talking about how high the gusts were

[P.K.]

One of your MPs Mark was saying damage could exceed AU$1,000,000,000.

[AussieMark]

I heard that

I know damages are at least $500 Million so I said that.

if damages do reach $1 Billion that would make Larry the costliest cyclone on record on face value that is

[beachbum_al]

Thanks. I was wanting to see pictures from down under.

[AussieMark]

I posted some in the Larry thread last week actually

[KatDaddy]

The sustained winds were in an Atlantic Basin range of CAT 3 with high velocity gusts..............almost the same as Celia in 1970 that hit Corpus Christi at 130 with gusts to 180MPH.

AussieMark is correct regarding the sustained winds and gusts. Australia measures the max severity at a gust level rather than sustained speeds like here in the States.

Bottom line winds over 130 sustained or gusts in Australia or the States is extreme.

Lets all pray and hope for the best for those at ground zero

[Jim Cantore]

Wow.. the audio slideshows looks all to familiar. Same issues with recovery and rescue as we have here.

Same animal different side of the planet is all..

Paul

so true

[Squeako da Magnifico]

More images of Larry's Fury

http://members.iinet.com.au/~mineylloyd/11