Cyclone Ita
The ABC updated reporting:
Cyclone Ita, a destructive category-five storm, is on a collision course with far north Queensland.
The weather bureau says Ita has slowed down as it heads towards the coast and should make landfall near Cape Flattery, about 70 kilometres north of Cooktown, late tonight.
The dangerous system will generate storm surges, high tides and very destructive winds of up to 300 kilometres per hour [186mph].
Parts of the coast could receive up to 300 millimetres [a foot] of rain every six hours for several days after Ita hits.
I added the conversions in brackets.
This is going to be as bad as Yasi was. The storm is slowing, so it won’t be a quick transit, and it will have more time to build the storm surge.
April 10, 2014 4 Comments
