What do cyclone tracks in Australia usually look like? In the US, they normally move north and west, then turn toward northeast. When I lived in Maryland, we didn’t often get direct hits from hurricanes, but we would fairly often get hit by remnants of hurricanes that had made landfall on the southeast Atlantic coast or the Gulf Coast. Was this cyclone moving southwest, and will it curve around to move southeast somewhere over the interior of Australia?
Here’s sending some good wishes for North Qld. I was in Cairns a dozen years ago or so. Loved it. Except the flocks of birds that screamed like banshees every damn morning.
Nah, they were pretty cool, too.
And the talking cockatoos at the animal park had Aussie accents. Imagine that.
They tend to move southwest, though the immediate movement is quite unpredictable. Larry has already been degraded to a low. Meanwhile the Far North Queenslanders are probably keen to see what Cyclone Wati is going to do. It winding up and moving towards the same general area that Larry hit.
I’ll be moving to Cairns sometime next year hopefully. From one cyclone prone area to another :sigh:.
Actually, it’s a little-publicised fact that the Australian accent was adopted from the cockatoo, not vice-versa.
Late checking this thread I know.
My sister lives in Cairns, and my brother rang me on Monday to say they were all fine, but had no power. I didn’t even know what he was talking about until I checked the news on the web.
I called my sister Monday night and they still had no power and the ice cream had all melted, but they did have a gas camping stove and lamp so managed to feed themselves with steak and salad 
Haven’t heard from my sister since, but we did get an email from my niece last night. (It was one of those “Forward to 20 friends so you get good luck” ones) She also lives in Cairns, so I assume that power is back on at least at their place. Innisfail, however looks like it will not have power for a week, since one of the transmission towers between there and Cairns blew over. It might be rather poor taste to say, but what I’ve seen of Innisfail is that rebuilding could only improve it. It was mostly built between the 1920s and 1950s and seemed to have stagnated there.
KF