New Record for Aus

[DeanoNZL (Adrian)]

Found this on a local weather site the other day, thought it was interesting. World Record Wind Gust: 408 km/h
http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre...nfo_58_en.html

[AstralTraveller (David)]

A resident of Port Headland told me how the town had a wind gauge rated to 300km/h. After a particularly severe cyclone the whole gauge was missing!! Apparently roofs were flying like confetti.

[multiweb (Marc)]

Should be a good place for a wind farm

[el_draco (Rom)]

Originally Posted by DeanoNZL

Found this on a local weather site the other day, thought it was interesting. World Record Wind Gust: 408 km/h
http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre...nfo_58_en.html

They should put a sensor in Canberra, much stronger gusts of hot air on a daily basis most of the the year...

[AstralTraveller (David)]

Originally Posted by el_draco

They should put a sensor in Canberra, much stronger gusts of hot air on a daily basis most of the the year...

Since when did pollies work most of the year??

[Jeffkop (Jeff)]

I like how it refers the record of wind gusts not related to tornados registered to date is 408 km/h during Tropical Cyclone Olivia in the bold type at the top ... then in the final paragraph it says "Hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons are different terms for the same weather phenomenon"

Sounds awfully related to me.

Anyway ... 408 kph is still an awesome gust whatever caused it

[Analog6 (Odille)]

You do get tornadoes sometimes as spin offs during cyclones but it sounds like the media stuffed it up again. Every time 'mini-cyclone' is mentioned in relation to what is actually a tornado the TV gets a big lambasting here.

[Exfso (Peter)]

Cyclones, typhoons and hurricanes are all same type of system, except the winds rotate clockwise south of the equator and anticlockwise north of the equator. These form generally from about 5 deg N/S of the equator to about 20deg N/S of the equator and are basically tropical depressions on steroids. Tornado's are different, but they can be spawned around the eyewall of hurricanes, cyclones and typhoons.
Nevertheless all are really deadly systems. Luckily cyclones etc lose their fuel once over land, but tornado's are at their most deadly and more prevalent over land.

[JimmyH155]

I worked at Foster Wheeler head office in Reading, England many years ago. In the lobby they had this huge oil painting of a North Sea oil rig, with the title of "An artists impression of the 150 year wave" (oil rigs etc are designed to withstand a certain theoretical wind speed - this case one that could eventuate once in 150 years)
There was a note underneath the painting saying that this size wave had twice been exceeded in the first year of operation
I guess it was back to the drawing board!!

[Outbackmanyep]

Does anyone remember that classic shot of Hurricane Wilma from space?