Tropical Cyclone Monica

Weather Underground ^ | 4/17/2006 | Nature

[dirtboy]

Have at it, folks.

[thoughtomator]

She's gone 'down under'...

(the jokes just write themselves)

[Toby06]

Not really blowing that hard yet.

[GEC]

So the other side of the world only got to "M" this year?

What happened to all the disasters from "climate change"?

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Monica sucks

[Recovering Hermit]

Sorry about your wife.

[Always Right]

What was Bill doing down there?

[reagan_fanatic]

"She's gone from suck to blow!"

[dirtboy]

And notice what Monica is aiming at - a long, bent peninsula.

[Vaquero]

Monica Blewclinski????

is she still around.

[dirtboy]

She's trying to figure out in the Southern Hemisphere whether Slick bent in the opposite direction.

[capydick]

This is going to be hard to swallow.

[Knuckledragger]

That's gonna leave a stain, er, mark.

[dfwgator]

So where do we insert the cigar?

[KarlInOhio]

I did not have meteorological relations with that storm Monica.

[E Rocc]

Is she after Typhoon Longwang?

-Eric

[Sam Cree]

For a minute I thought that New Guinea was Hispaniola and Australia was Venezuela - started to get upset!

[manwiththehands]

This has way too much potential ... checking back often.

[dirtboy]

Is she after Typhoon Longwang?

No, Typhoon Bentwang...

[sgtbono2002]

Blow is just a figure of speech.

[scottdeus12]

That depends on your definition of "Cyclone".....

[dfwgator]

Can't they just put some ice on it?

[Jonah Hex]

"Monica just blew in... just another bloomin' day in the billabong."

[dirtboy]

Does it have atmospheric suction like a Hoover?

[chs68]

I'm having difficulty reading the map in your post.

Is Tropical Cyclone Monica that white stain on the blue ocean?

[chs68]

"And notice what Monica is aiming at - a long, bent peninsula."

Actually, the penisula looks rather short and stubby to me.

[dirtboy]

bump this thread - Monica is blowing even harder down under this morning.

[dirtboy]

Wednesday bump - Monica is blowing Australia hard today.

[Schwaeky]

no more like an Oreck...

[dirtboy]

no more like an Oreck...

Except Monica weighs a lot more than six pounds.

[nwctwx]

Monica today (Cat 5 US/Aus):
LINK

From earlier this morning (note gusts to 350km)

The very destructive core of severe tropical cyclone Monica with gusts to 350 kilometres per hour is expected to impact islands of northeast Arnhem Land, including Elcho Island tonight. The very destructive core is expected to impact the north coast of western Arnham Land between Milingimbi and Croker Island during Monday. The cyclone is expected to weaken slightly as it passes over the base of the Coburg Peninsula before reaching the northwest Darwin-Daly and Tiwi Island area on Tuesday.

[JustPiper]

I like the name It's about time!

http://thestormtrack.com/archives/2006/04/category_5_moni.html

[Dog Gone]

Dang! That is an impressive storm!

[mewzilla]

Wow. Is that the stadium effect we're looking at? Is so, that's bad, right, because it's indicative of a strong storm?

Prayers for folks in harm's way.

[NautiNurse]

Yowser--that's a nasty one. Big eye too.

[nwctwx]

Yes, looks like a decent stadium effect at sunset. Extremely intense storm for that area.. 2nd of recent times.

[NautiNurse]

Sustained winds 161mph, gusts to 224mph. Ouch...

[sweetliberty]

That sucks.

[ArrogantBustard]

Hmmmm .... a gigantic low pressure area ... that sucks!

[ArrogantBustard]

All monica jokes aside, that's a colossal storm. I hope everybody's properly prepared.

[nwctwx]

It's fortunate that much of Australia is open land, the coastline is nowhere near as developed as places in the U.S.

The current track brings her near Darwin late in the period, and quite a few live there... it looks like it will travel over land at some point, and weaken, before reaching that region though.

[Dog Gone]

It's a lot less stressful posting on this thread than on the ones which will undoubtedly be posted here later this summer.

[No Blue States]

Prayers for the Aussies in Monicas path.
What a monster.

[dirtboy]

Looks like it has already moved inland.