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Australisch alarm voor orkaan Ingrid

Uitgegeven: 8 maart 2005 07:08
Laatst gewijzigd: 8 maart 2005 07:19

SYDNEY - De autoriteiten in het noorden van de Australische deelstaat Queensland hebben dinsdag de burgers gewaarschuwd voor de komst van de zware orkaan Ingrid. Die koerst af op de kust van Queensland met windsnelheden die kunnen oplopen tot bijna 300 kilometer per uur.

De orkaan is volgens Australische meteorologen van de vijde en daarmee hoogste categorie.


Volgens de Australische zender ABC is het precieze pad dat Ingrid zal volgen niet goed te voorspellen, maar de betrokken kuststreek moet zich wel voorbereiden op het ergste  :-(  :-(  :-(
 
Das dan een lekker begin van het hele Australie avontuur voor Martijn en Rebecca...als Ingrid tenminste Brisbane een bezoekje komt brengen  :|  :x
 
Ja, het is een hele erge idd, nog erger dan Tracy in 1974.

Ik heb het idee dat het Brisbane niet zal raken, maar die zullen er ook vast last van krijgen.
Cairns heeft wel een grote kans!

:-( :-o
 
Wat ik ervandaag over in de krant las was dat de orkaan "Ingrid"  :cloud: wrsch  the Far North of Qld gaat treffen. dat is idd niet in de buurt van Brisbane dus ik maak me, vooralsnog, geen zorgen.. 

Ingrid.
 
Zowhee Aussielover...jij bent al beroemd in Australie als zelfs de orkaan al wordt vernoemd naar jou(w echte naam)
 
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Zowhee Aussielover...jij bent al beroemd in Australie als zelfs de orkaan al wordt vernoemd naar jou(w echte naam)
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:-D Hahaha ! had jij het ook al in de gaten ! Daarom loop  ik hier meestal incognito rond ! :cool:

:wink:

greets,

Ingrid.
 
Cyclone Ingrid nears coast

09mar05

CYCLONE Ingrid, potentially the worst tropical storm to strike Australia in 30 years, has slowed and weakened but remains a serious threat as it nears the far north Queensland coast.

In its latest advice the Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre in Brisbane said the cyclone, now downgraded to category four, was today about 220km north north-east of Cooktown and 295km east of Coen and moving westward at 7km/h.
The warning centre said the cyclone was expected to move south-west throughout the day and could reach the coast between Cape Flattery and Coen early tomorrow.

The severe cyclone was packing very destructive winds of up to 280 kph near its centre.

The warning centre said gales were expected to develop between Cape Grenville and Cooktown this morning with destructive winds predicted between Coen and Cape Flattery later in the day.

Communities in the area have prepared for the cyclone and some areas have been evacuated.

A spokeswoman for the Cape Flattery Silica Mine, located directly in the path of the storm, said most of the workers were evacuated yesterday.

"We've got gale force winds here and we've already had a big clean-up to make sure there's nothing that can fly around.

"We got most of the workers out yesterday, but there are 29 of us still here and we'll just sit it out," she said.

The Cooktown Shire Council and the Queensland Counter Disaster and Rescue Service were both holding emergency meetings today to discuss responses to the cyclone.

The potential impact of the cyclone had been worsened by predicted king tides, which could inundate low lying areas.

Emergency workers along the coast were busy preparing sandbag defences against the seawater.

At Cooktown airport, weather observer Terry Dukes said cyclones were a fact of life and everyone was as prepared as they could be.

"We've all stocked up our food and water and we are ready.

"We've done our clean-ups and we just have to wait and see what happens," Mr Dukes said.

The Tropical Cyclone Warning Centre said there was a possibility Ingrid could again intensify to category five, but as a category four it remained as big a threat as Cyclone Tracy, which devastated Darwin 30 years ago.
 
Buitenland
     
do 10 mrt 2005, 00:27
Afgezwakte cycloon geselt Queensland
SYDNEY - De tropische cycloon Ingrid heeft donderdag het Australische schiereiland Cape York in de deelstaat Queensland bereikt. Volgens Australische media is de cycloon sindsdien in kracht afgenomen. Desondanks is het de zwaarste orkaan in dit deel van Australië in 35 jaar.

 

De tropische cycloon Ingrid.
Foto: REUTERS

Volgens de politie is er tot dusver geen sprake van grootschalige schade of van persoonlijk letsel  :up: . De meeste inwoners van de getroffen streek hadden bovendien tijdig een veilig heenkomen gezocht. Er bestaat nog wel vrees voor hoge golven aan de kust.

Volgens de website van The Sydney Morning Herald was Ingrid aanvankelijk ingeschaald in de vijfde en daarmee hoogste categorie. De kracht van de cycloon nam daarna af tot categorie drie, nog altijd goed voor windsnelheden tot 100 kilometer per uur.
 
Was trouwens hier in Nederland ook nog als extra nieuws opgenomen in het NOS- journaal gisterenavond zag ik!!
 
Ingrid rages on

16mar05

CYCLONE Ingrid had damaged the remote town of Kalumburu on Western Australia's north Kimberley coast, but it was too soon to say how badly, police said today.

The full force of Ingrid, then a category four, lashed the Aboriginal community overnight battering it with wind gusts of up to 260km/h as the eye of the storm passed just to the north.
The cyclone hit Kalumburu early this morning and authorities have said there is damage, but fierce winds have kept residents inside, preventing any proper assessment.

"There is obviously some damage," Graeme Forbes of Broome police said.

"They are just starting to get some daylight there and the winds are still too strong for them to venture outside.
He said a police officer who was in Kalumburu had reported the town took a significant hit from Ingrid.

"He heard debris flying about during the night but we don't have any accurate assessment of the damage yet."

Most of the town's 300 or so residents spent the night sheltering in their homes while Ingrid raged.

"I believe the elderly and the infirm people had been taken out prior to the cyclone," he said.

"But most of the people in Kalumburu just stayed in their houses."

Police said authorities would wait for a report from the officer in Kalumburu before deciding if three helicopters on standby at Kununurra should be sent in.

The Bureau of Meteorology downgraded Ingrid from a category four to a category three this morning.

Weather observer Rob Vanleeuwen, from the Broome Meteorological Office, said Ingrid was expected to weaken further as the storm system moved inland.

Ingrid was moving south west at 10km/h and should hit Drysdale River Station and Gibb River later in the day, he said.

"Drysdale won't be hit like Kalumburu but it will still get gale force winds," Mr Vanleeuwen said.

"They will be in for a bit of a rocky ride."

Forecasters have warned dangerously high tides could cause extensive flooding along the coast between Truscott and the Berkeley River mouth.
 
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