Confused Odette

[Cliff Rogers]

Which way will she go?

[ptc]

Cliff
kick it down here we need some.

[Rossluck]

Cliff
kick it down here we need some.

You can have some PTC, as long as it goes past us slowwwwwly.

You must be a bit nervous, Cliff, after the last one ....

[Wood Borer]

It couldn't be strong enough to blow away that big lathe though Cliff.

[Wood Butcher]

According to the Sunday Mail Yesterday, this rain system "has the potential" to fill all of SE QLD's dams. I hope to hell it does!

[Cliff Rogers]

It is gone.... not rain. no wind, nothing.

[Bleedin Thumb]

I was working on Sth Molle Island years ago when Cyclone Kerry circled us 3 times from memory. I left and went to Clownsville only to get hit by another one. I copped 10 weeks solid rain that year - 1978?

[Cliff Rogers]

1 March 1979 – Category 1 Cyclone

Kerry crossed the coast at Proserpine, 80 km to the

north.

There was another Cyclone called Kerry in Jan 2005, it went much further south & didn't cross the coast.

[Felder]

I was working on Sth Molle Island years ago when Cyclone Kerry circled us 3 times from memory.

That's impressive! The last time I circled South Molle island I needed a map!

[Bleedin Thumb]

1 March 1979 – Category 1 Cyclone

Kerry crossed the coast at Proserpine, 80 km to the

north.

There was another Cyclone called Kerry in Jan 2005, it went much further south & didn't cross the coast.

Thanks Cliff, Kerry (1979) has a couple of claims to fame namely:

1. It had the largest eye of any cyclone ever recorded at 90 km
2. It was the longest lived cyclone ever recorded, 13 Feb - 6 Mar.
3. It caused my curtains to rot.

I also note that they have retired the name - why do they do that?

[masoth]

The only member of my family to be born in a hospital, I was born at the Cairns Base during the strongest cyclone recorded to that time .......... and I'm still 'turning'.

soth

[Cliff Rogers]

... Kerry (1979) ...
1. It had the largest eye of any cyclone ever recorded at 90 km.....

I also note that they have retired the name - why do they do that?

90kms was the radius of the eye, it was 180Kms across the eye.
A name remains on the list until its corresponding cyclone severely impacts the coast & then it is retired.
The list cycles over about every 10 years.
The reason that there was another cyclone Kerry in 2005 it that it formed outside of Australian waters & was named by another country.

...I was born at the Cairns Base during the strongest cyclone recorded to that time ..........

Was that 20 January, 1930?
Un-named Cyclone estimated to be a catogory 1-2 finally crossed at Mossman.
6 deaths due to flooding. Huge stock losses.

[Felder]

Un-named Cyclone .......

Let's call it "Ruddigar".

[Cliff Rogers]

Let's call it "Ruddigar".

You can't name something that has been gone for 77 years.

PS. Why Ruddigar? Why not Nadnerb?

[Felder]

You can't name something that has been gone for 77 years.

Not with that sort of attitude, you can't.

PS. Why Ruddigar? Why not Nadnerb?