SPAC: ITA - Tropical Cyclone

[xtyphooncyclonex]

From Explosive Intensification to Rapid Weakening, due to land interaction. Glad it rapidly weakened as a tropical storm, but the problem now is the heavy rainfall and the post-cyclone damages.

[stormkite]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-V8TmB2tYo#t=74[/youtube]
At 45 knots.

[Hurricane_Luis]

The BBC are having their usall "Its not here, we do not care" attitude about this. I have seen not one report on Ita making landfall and causing damage. I bet if Ita made landfall in the US it would dominate the news for weeks.

Rant over. Ita will probably slowly die over the cold water now.

[xtyphooncyclonex]

The BBC are having their usall "Its not here, we do not care" attitude about this. I have seen not one report on Ita making landfall and causing damage. I bet if Ita made landfall in the US it would dominate the news for weeks.

Rant over. Ita will probably slowly die over the cold water now.

Well, BBC had decent coverage during typhoon Haiyan. I wonder why not now?

Back to the topic, Ita's core is currently disintegrating and is unofficially barely at TS status by the JTWC, and at category 1 status by the official agency of Australia, BOM.

I hope Queensland did not get the worst of this storm.

[stormkite]

The BBC are having their usall "Its not here, we do not care" attitude about this. I have seen not one report on Ita making landfall and causing damage. I bet if Ita made landfall in the US it would dominate the news for weeks.

Rant over. Ita will probably slowly die over the cold water now.

Well, BBC had decent coverage during typhoon Haiyan. I wonder why not now?

Back to the topic, Ita's core is currently disintegrating and is unofficially barely at TS status by the JTWC, and at category 1 status by the official agency of Australia, BOM.

I hope Queensland did not get the worst of this storm.

Here's a good time lapse of TC ITA's track a coast hugger.

http://www.bellmereweather.net/CycloneTimeLapse.asp

[stormkite]

Off to NewZealand as a extra-tropical cyclone.

IDQ20018
TROPICAL CYCLONE TECHNICAL BULLETIN: AUSTRALIA - EASTERN REGION
Issued by BRISBANE TROPICAL CYCLONE WARNING CENTRE
at: 0726 UTC 14/04/2014
Name: Ex-Tropical Cyclone Ita
Identifier: 15U
Data At: 0600 UTC
Latitude: 23.7S
Longitude: 155.1E

Surface observations from Cato Island indicate that the system has intensified
during the extra-tropical transition, with maximum sustained winds pushed up to
50 knots. Dvorak analysis no longer relevant. Confidence in the LLCC position is
fair, using visible satelite imagery and surface automatic weather station
observations.

[euro6208]

Hoping for no major damage/loss of life after all is said and done...

[stormkite]

Hoping for no major damage/loss of life after all is said and done...

Quite a bit of damage as you would expect but the most important thing no fatalities reported.

GFS simulator developing upto another 3 cyclones 2 quite intense one's 1 in the Solomon Islands not good they really suffered with ITA and 1 in the Australian region around the 25th this month. Odd because its late in the season.

http://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis ... r_aus.html (ATM)

[xtyphooncyclonex]

Hoping for no major damage/loss of life after all is said and done...

Quite a bit of damage as you would expect but the most important thing no fatalities reported.

GFS simulator developing upto another 3 cyclones 2 quite intense one's 1 in the Solomon Islands not good they really suffered with ITA and 1 in the Australian region around the 25th this month. Odd because its late in the season.

http://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis ... r_aus.html (ATM)

Had Ita made landfall in central Philippines, it would have killed at least 1,000 people and would result in very significant damages amd devastation The closest intensity storm to make landfall in the Philippines in terms of 1 min unofficial is Durian in 2006, at 250 km/hr. I could not compare it to JMA's 10-minute scale because it is screwed.

[xtyphooncyclonex]

The Australian Government did excellent preparations for such a monster cyclone.

[stormkite]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/9952521 ... ause-havoc

Still a powerful storm check out the videos on the link.

[stormkite]

http://www.3news.co.nz/Ita-leaves-more- ... fault.aspx

concrete poles snapped and Forrest wind damage footage.

[HurricaneBill]

Stormkite, any pressure observations that you know of?

[stormkite]

Stormkite, any pressure observations that you know of?

i wil try and find out Bill and if there is any i will post em cheers.