Nick Payne
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 2626
Location: Canberra, Australia2/26/13 10:08 PM |
OT: Tropical cyclone in real time
Don't know how much longer this view of the cyclone and its eye will be visible, but our BoM weather radar for Port Hedland, where a cyclone has been sitting just offshore with virtually no movement for the past couple of days, makes for interesting viewing at the moment:
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR163.loop.shtml#skip
About one-sixth of all the iron ore in the world goes out through Port Hedland, and the whole place has been sitting idle since Sunday because of the cyclone, which is expected to cross the coast as a category 4 system sometime later today. Here's one of the stills from the radar loop:
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