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To: i-node who wrote (599628)	2/2/2011 12:57:28 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570343

I think you are finally getting it figured out. Oceans are getting too hot. You shudda learned that with Katrina. This was B4 it became Cat 5. Air's getting hot, too; holds 4% more water than it did 30 years ago. Masters: Extremely dangerous Tropical Cyclone Yasi bears down on flooded Queensland, Australia February 1, 2011 Tropical Cyclone Yasi at midnight GMT today. Credit: NASA via Masters. In a globally warmed world, the saying will be rewritten: When it rains, it deluges. The warmest sea surface temperatures in Australian records have been fueling floods called ‘biblical’ — floods covering an area “the size of France and Germany combined.” ABC News has explained “Raging Waters In Australia and Brazil Product of Global Warming.” But now, water-logged Queensland is bracing for Category 4 Yasi, which itself is crossing over the warmest waters on record for the region. Meteorologist and former hurricane hunter Dr. Jeff Masters has the details: Tropical Cyclone Yasi continues to intensify as it speeds westwards towards vulnerable Queensland, Australia. Yasi, now a Category 4 storm with 140 mph winds, is under light wind shear of 5 – 10 knots, and over warm ocean waters of 29°C (84°C). The sea surface temperatures over the region of ocean Yasi is traversing (10S – 20S, 145E – 160E) were 1.2°C above average during December, the latest month we have data for from the UK Hadley Center. This is the highest value on record, going back to the early 1900s. Low wind shear and record warm sea surface temperatures will continue to affect Yasi for the next day, and the cyclone should be able to maintain Category 4 strength until landfall Wednesday evening (local time.) Queensland faces three major threats from Yasi. The cyclone will bring torrential rainfall to a region with saturated soils that saw record flooding earlier this month. The latest rainfall rates in Yasi’s eyewall as estimated by NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite are 20 mm (0.8?) per hour. The GFS model is predicting that a wide swath of Queensland will receive 5 – 10 inches of rain over the next week, due to the combined effects of Yasi and a moist flow of tropical air over the region. Fortunately, Yasi is moving with a rapid forward speed, about 21 mph, and is not expected to linger over Queensland after landfall. The heaviest rainfall will miss Queenland’s most populated regions to the south that had the worst flooding problems earlier this month, including the Australia’s third largest city, Brisbane. Yasi will bring highly destructive winds to a region of coast near the city of Cairns (population 150,000.) Townsville (population 200,000) is farther from the expected landfall of the eyewall, and should see lesser winds. Strong building codes have been in place in Queensland since the 1960s, which will help reduce the damage amounts. A dangerous storm surge in excess of ten feet can be expected along the left front quadrant of the storm where it comes ashore. The critical thing will be when Yasi hits relative to the tidal cycle. The tidal range between low and high tide along the coast near Cairns will be about 2 meters (6 feet) during the evening of February 2. If Yasi hits at low tide, a 10-foot storm surge will only bring the water levels four feet above mean tide, but a strike at high tide would bring water levels a full ten feet above mean tide. High tide is at 9pm EST (local) time in Cairns on February 2. Yasi is comparable to Cyclone Larry of 2006, which hit Queensland as a Category 4 storm with 135 mph winds. Larry killed one person and caused $872 million in damage (2011 U.S. dollars.) Yasi is a much larger storm than Larry, though, and will bring heavy rains to a region with soils already saturated from record rains. Yasi is likely to be a billion-dollar disaster for Australia. In this country, the precipitation is coming down as snow in what is already becoming a record-smashing blizzard, as Masters explains in the same post. Of course it remains An amazing, though clearly little-known, scientific fact that we get more snow storms in warm years. See also Another terrific ABC News story — on the role global warming is playing in extreme winter weather. climateprogress.org

To: i-node who wrote (599628)	2/2/2011 3:05:22 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1570343

>> Australian Dollar Falls as Cyclone With 180 mph Winds Hits Coast So, you're going to blame this on global warming? LOL. While the US is up to its eyeballs in snow? That's global warming too. You all never bothered to read what global warming was all about. Its about greater extremes......bigger storms. Storms that hurt us both physically and economically. Enjoy!