[WeatherOp]

Once again another Supercyclone, that was alerted to me by someone at the tropical forum. It is easily a cat 5, probley stronger then Rita at it's strongest point. Please tell me the northern most part of this area is most un-inhabited.

*EDIT, name is Monica, not Monica

[NGTM-1R]

My first thought, I have to admit, was "No, you fool, it's spell Cylon!"

<,< >,>

[Trivial Psychic]

Oddly enough, I read "Cylon" as well.  I was then a little puzzled when I saw a weather radar display upon openning this thread.

[Jeryko]

make that 3 that read cylon 

[watsisname]

make that 3 that read cylon

Heh, I guess I make four.

I'm amazed at how well-defined this system is, and how powerful it is despite it being a bit small.  I wish the best for anyone who lies in its path.

[Flipside]

*EDIT, name is Monica, not Monica

Seriousness of this aside, someones having a bad keyboard day

I hope it doesn't do too much damage

[Ace]

I thought the thread as "Cylon Menace" and all I got was a stupid cyclone

[watsisname]

[begin useless rant]
Actually, the response to that typo made me think of an experiment I once heard of that dealt with how we read words. 
Basically, it showed that when we read, it's the first and last letters of the word that matter the most.
For emxlpae, if you're geivn a lnie of txet in wichh the mdlide lertets of ecah wrod are sbrmaceld, you can siltl raed it wtohiut mcuh dftlifciuy.
^ See?

That kind of makes sense then that we all read "cyclon" as "cylon" instead of "cyclone", because of the missing "e" at the end.  I'd bet that most of us would have read "cyclone" anyway if it were the second "c" that was missing.
[/end useless rant]

[Flipside]

I read it as cyclone because it was WeatherOp that posted it

[FireCrack]

I initialy thaugh "It's spelled Cylon!" but then thaught a cyclon might be some sort of particle accelerator...

[Bobboau]

so the cylons have developed a weather machine! how diabolical!

[WeatherOp]

Allright, you guys have had your fun, I was having a bad typing day, due to of things really, but back to Monica.

This quote is from someone at the tropical forum who really watches things down there more then I do, more then I could in the past week.

EDIT2, 3:30PM EST: Monica now ties for the strongest ever southern hemisphere system, with winds of 155kt and pressure of an astounding 879mb. Yes, you read that right: stronger than Wilma. Objective T-numbers have hit the ceiling, at T8.0

Stronger then Wilma!! Yep you are watching one of the perfect hurricanes to have ever prowled the planet.

One thing that is good to see if the fact that it is keeping the strongest winds over water, and maybe it will continue to do so until it loses some of it's fury.

[WeatherOp]

Well, it come in earlier this morning, most likely as a Cat 5, but possibly this more inland turn will spare the city of Darwin a direct hit, or atleast in a much weakened state.

[Kazan]

more and stronger storms? that's what warmer sea temperatures will do for you, this comes as no suprise for me (dunno if i've told you guys before: but i would have been getting a degree in meteorology to do field research if i hadn't learned how to code)

the ocean temperature under a hurricane defines the upper bound for it's strength and is also generally a good indicator of it's probable strength in that location (although other factors can weaken it)

i've definantly seen an increase in the intensity, duration and frequency of hurricanes, and sooner first and later last storms of the season over the last decade.

[Grug]

Yeah there was talk of it being worse than Cyclone Tracy that flattened Darwin all those years ago.

Time to see if those cyclone resilient homes have been built well enough...

[IceFire]

Projections say the gulf coast is going to have another rocky summer and fall.