Ingrid on radar..

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Ingrid on radar..

#1 Postby Blown Away » Wed Mar 09, 2005 2:00 pm

Impressive!

http://www.weatherzone.com.au/currentwe ... p?code=018
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#2 Postby Blown Away » Wed Mar 09, 2005 2:06 pm

Enlarge the picture and you can see the outer edge of the eye is on land.
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#3 Postby Lindaloo » Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:32 pm

Awesome sat pic! I feel sorry for those people experiencing this right now though!
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#4 Postby chadtm80 » Wed Mar 09, 2005 4:10 pm

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#5 Postby StormChasr » Wed Mar 09, 2005 4:57 pm

Those poor people.......I hope they find the strength to get through this. (Charley, Frances, Jean veteran here).
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#6 Postby AussieMark » Wed Mar 09, 2005 6:39 pm

Ingrid was the equivilant of what u guys would call a category 3 hurricane.

she was a category 4 on the Australian scale.

she is one of the stronger systems to hit the Australian east coast in recent decades.

she is definately the strongest to hit since Aivu in April 1989.

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Aivu hit with around 125 mph sustained winds.
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#7 Postby StormChasr » Wed Mar 09, 2005 7:00 pm

There's a different scale for Australia?? Didn't know that? Is there a Cat 6 that's equivalent to our Category 5???
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#8 Postby HURAKAN » Wed Mar 09, 2005 7:10 pm

StormChasr wrote:There's a different scale for Australia?? Didn't know that? Is there a Cat 6 that's equivalent to our Category 5???


There is no Category 6, is using the same numbers but with winds variations.

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#9 Postby senorpepr » Wed Mar 09, 2005 7:23 pm

Also note that the Aussie scale is based on the strongest gust, in km/hr, rather than sustained winds, in mph, like the Saffir-Simpson Scale.
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#10 Postby StormChasr » Wed Mar 09, 2005 7:34 pm

GOTCHA...Thanks a lot...was confused. :)
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#11 Postby Stephanie » Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:21 pm

She's a classic! Keeping everyone down under in my thoughts!
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#12 Postby Innotech » Wed Mar 09, 2005 8:50 pm

Cant imagine what it must be like to live on the Pacific rim and watch Cat 4 and 5 monsters barreling towards you all year long!
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#13 Postby AussieMark » Wed Mar 09, 2005 9:42 pm

Innotech wrote:Cant imagine what it must be like to live on the Pacific rim and watch Cat 4 and 5 monsters barreling towards you all year long!


u should see the West Australian coast between 1996 and 2004 7 storms that would be the equivilant of catgeory 4 hurricanes made landfall.

Olivia - April 1996
http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/s_i ... /track.gif

Thelma - December 1998
http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/s_i ... /track.gif

Vance - March 1999
http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/s_i ... /track.gif

John - December 1999
http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/s_i ... /track.gif

Rosita - April 2000
http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/s_i ... /track.gif

Chris - February 2002
http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/s_i ... /track.gif

Fay - March 2004
http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/s_i ... /track.gif
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#14 Postby chadtm80 » Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:04 pm

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#15 Postby Lindaloo » Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:25 pm

WOW! That is a nice one Chad.
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#16 Postby AussieMark » Thu Mar 10, 2005 6:02 pm

Ingrid was a beauty. :D

Its a shame as beautiful as they are that they can be quite destructive.
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