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This is the most recent UPDATE and it will be the last update for information about this huge Cyclone that impacted North Queensland in Australia. I have links to videos and image galleries showing the immense damage caused as this Category 5 storm swept through this area. While there is damage to thousands of homes, the main damage is to the Banana plantations, and this area grows and supplies 90% of Australia's bananas. There is also huge damage to the Sugar Cane crops as well, as this is also a huge sugar cane growing area. While this huge storm impacted...

This is the most recent UPDATE with the links to the latest articles from the local news media, videos, radio, image galleries, and Cyclone Advisory Notices. The Cyclone is now almost 250 miles inland from Cairns, and moving towards Mount Isa. So far, the most thankful thing is that there have been no reported casualties. Damage however, is horrendous.

Tropical Cyclone Yasi came ashore at Mission Beach around midnight. As dawn breaks, people are just beginning to see those scenes of devastation, especially at Tully, and Cardwell, both close to Mission beach. It's still early days yet, and reports are only beginning to filter in. Cairns and Innisfail were spared the worst of it, but are still in danger from the storm surge on the morning high tide. Townsville to the South has been flooded with almost feet of rain. The Cyclone is now nearly 150 miles inland, and has been downgraded to a Category 2 System

This is the most recent UPDATE for this Post. Major Category 5 Tropical Cyclone Yasi crossed the Queensland coastline at Mission beach, around 20 miles south of Innisfail, and 65 miles South of Cairns at midnight. Winds at the core of the Cyclone, now intensely worse than Hurricane Katrina, are around 190MPH. Reports coming from the area are sketchy, and not much will be seen or known until the morning. I have links to live TV coverage, Live radio coverage, major media reports, weather radar images, links to satellite imagery, and I will be continuing with further UPDATES.

This cyclone is now infinitely worse even than Hurricane Katrina in every respect. One link shows an overlay of this Cyclone over Continental U.S. and it covers virtually the whole of the U.S. There is also a link to live radio coverage from the affected area, now extending along a 1500 mile stretch of the Queensland Coastline. People have been told the time for evacuation has passed, and now they are on their own, and have been warned to lock themselves in their bathrooms, and bunker up, for what could be a day or two. Winds at the core are...

This Post has the latest UPDATE for this monster Cyclone. Tropical Cyclone Yasi has been upgraded to Severe Category 5 with winds at the centre in the vicinity of 200 MPH. This now places this storm on the same scale as for Hurricane Katrina.It will impact the Queensland Coastline near Cairns, a major city of 125,000 people, and in Townsville to the South, 60,000 people are being evacuated from there as well. It is expected to make landfall at around 10PM tonight, Wednesday Australian time, and because of its size, will saty as a major Cyclone for almost 2 days....

This is the latest UPDATE on this super Cyclone heading for Cairns, a city with a population of around 130,000. There is an image at the Post comparing some large and damaging storms, and this Cyclone Yasi bears remarkable similarities in nearly every respect with Hurricane Katrina, except Yasi will pack more than three times the rain (around 40 inches in this case with Yasi) that was associated with Katrina, and Yasi will have approximately the same storm surge, around 23 feet. This is a truly frightening thing, and you'll see just how frightening from the latest Satellite tracking imagery,...

A monster Cyclone (named Cyclone Yasi) is currently heading towards the State of Queensland in Australia. Queensland is only just recovering from recent flooding across most of this huge State. This monster cyclone is similar in size and scope to Hurricane Katrina, and there are very grave fears for what might may happen when this huge System makes landfall, on early Thursday morning, in an area south of Cairns. Some areas are expecting huge sea surges, and there will be rainfall associated with the Cyclone in the vicinity of 40 inches, which will cause major flooding. Some of the imagery...