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Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2020 8:19 pm
by steve shearer
yep.
20ft+ with 20 second periods??????
that sounds like an old sailors tale.
would take a very special system to produce that on the east coast.
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2020 9:37 pm
by crabmeat thompson
tootr wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 8:10 pm
So this summer, hot, humid, more storms / cyclones, and more rain?
in a nutshell basically. i think higgins stormchasers said something outlandish like 25 forecast cyclones in australian waters this summer.
that's eyepopping!
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2020 9:53 pm
by alakaboo
Sure it wasn't 1967, Nick?
There were about 5 cyclones that year, some of which went extra-tropical.
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2020 4:16 am
by Trev
alakaboo wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 9:53 pm
Sure it wasn't 1967, Nick?
There were about 5 cyclones that year, some of which went extra-tropical.
Yep.
That was Dinah's year.
Late January.
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2020 8:43 am
by Slobadan Madicubich
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Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2020 9:30 am
by Drailed
crabmeat thompson wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 9:37 pm
tootr wrote: ↑Wed Sep 16, 2020 8:10 pm
So this summer, hot, humid, more storms / cyclones, and more rain?
in a nutshell basically. i think higgins stormchasers said something outlandish like 25 forecast cyclones in australian waters this summer.
that's eyepopping!
My locals gonna pump braddah!!!
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2020 10:04 am
by steve shearer
Slobadan Madicubich wrote: ↑Thu Sep 17, 2020 8:43 am
The last east Pacific La Nina didn't bring much rain
which one are you referring to Slob?
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2020 1:50 pm
by Nick Carroll
if there were 25 TCs in Australian waters this season it'd be the biggest tc season in recorded history
boo def June 68. it's not some pissant cyclone swell.
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2020 6:27 pm
by crabmeat thompson
yeah i know ... 25 is a huge number.
there are what, 5 or 6 spinning in the atlantic right now, all at once. so never say never ... but i think i will on 25.
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2020 8:34 pm
by Skipper
the ghost of Mick Hawi says hold my beer.
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2020 8:45 pm
by steve shearer
Higgins stormchasers always over eggs the omelette.
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2020 10:37 pm
by crabmeat thompson
god bless their enthusiasm
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2020 12:52 am
by alakaboo
I've got reports of 30ft waves in Sydney in mid-May 1968.
Pine trees were washed away at Brighton le Sands.
Haven't found anything in June?
I'd love to see the pic, it apparently wasn't a major erosion or flooding event.
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2020 6:11 am
by steve shearer
this is exciting, a real mystery.
haven;'t been so pumped on RS since Iggs posted up his montage homage to Beanpole.
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2020 7:08 am
by crabmeat thompson
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2020 7:35 am
by Cranked
Somewhat related:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -Eden.html
June 2016: The largest wave ever recorded in New South Wales was measured earlier this week during violent storms that lashed Australia's east coast - smashing the previous record by several metres.
A wave measuring 17.7 metres in height - as tall as a six storey apartment building - was recorded off the coast of Eden, on the state's south coast at 4.30am on Monday.
The wave passed the previous record measured in April last year, when a Sydney buoy recorded a 14.9 metre wave.
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2020 8:23 am
by alakaboo
Yeah, but waverider buoys weren't deployed in Qld until August 1968, and I think 1972 in NSW.
Re: La Nina 20/21
Posted: Mon Sep 21, 2020 9:23 pm
by tootr
Saw a spot on ABC news from Northern Territory weather person - expecting an “early” monsoon and a long season of very unsettled weather.
