This morning it quickly ramped up from a category 2 [ late last night] to a category 3 and then by mid morning had moved to a Category 5 - the highest, and was skirting the coast. It crossed the NW Western Australia coast near Cockatoo island, an isolated area, an hour or two ago as a category 5 cyclone - with winds to 285km/hr, although now weakening slightly to a Category 4 system, and winds have fallen by 30 - 50km/hr, and continuing to fall as the cyclone moves across land. However, now the small township of Derby is in it's path. Tropical Cyclone Laurence is not done YET!
All we had was a rather damp weekend - with a mere 385mm of rain over the weekend. There were some local areas around Darwin with over 450mm over the weekend, and it was wet wet wet, with some wild winds to around 100km/hr. Today here was overcast with very high UV levels and ocassional sunshine [ I know about the UV - got a bit sunburnt while outside working - building a new oval], with monsoonal showers and a late storm.
The rain is vital to our area, even if it all falls over a short period. At least our local water dams are close to full from this wet event, so that is great.
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Now if you want to take some pictures of the fascinating witches who put the scintilating stitches in the britches of the boys who put the powder on the noses on the faces of ladies of the harem of the Court of King Caractacus, well you can't!
'Cause they've just, passed, by!
...just like Cyclone Laurence
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