Massive Cyclone Of Epic Proportions Makes Landfall In Australia

Posted By on February 2, 2011

Australia is fighting its worst weather in a 100 years, first rain and floods, now a huge cyclone.  Cyclone Yasi, which is now projected to be a category 5 storm according to the Australian Weather Bureau, is making landfall in Queensland and will add to the continent’s flooding misery, which has already incurred over $20 billion of damages to eastern states. Yet in a case of supreme irony, the West of the continent, unlike the East which has been having flood after flood, and which is the source of Australia’s bread basket and where the bulk of the grains come from, is wrapped in a drought that threatens to impair an already week wheat harvest.

From Bloomberg: “At stake is the output of the country’s biggest wheat- growing state at a time when global food shortages have pushed prices to records. The drought has already prompted the government of Western Australian state Premier Colin Barnett to cut its economic growth forecast for the year to June 30 to 4 percent, from 4.5 percent.”

CAIRNS, Australia (AP) — The eye of the most powerful cyclone to hit northeast Australia in nearly 100 years has made landfall. Cyclone Yasi’s eye came ashore at the small resort town of Mission Beach early Thursday morning. Thousands of residents huddled in evacuation centers or hid at home in bathrooms behind piles of blankets and mattresses.

Australian leaders issued dire warnings of potential devastation for cities and towns dotted along a stretch of coast more than 190 miles (300 kilometers) long in north Queensland state, in an area considered the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef.

“This is a cyclone of savagery and intensity,” Prime Minister Julia Gillard said in a nationally televised news conference as the storm moved toward the coast. “People are facing some really dreadful hours in front of them.”

Winds at the center of the storm were gusting up to 186 mph (300 kph), and the front was about 300 miles (500 kilometers) across. The worst of the winds were expected to last up to four hours on the coast, though blustery conditions and heavy rain could last for 24 hours.

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