Yeah that sounds right. Good find Boomer. A moat not a splice. haha.

Ahh give the boys a few more eyewall crossings and 60 minutes and National Geographic will hopefully want to speak to them. Not just 30 seconds on a news real. It would all help no doubt in the meantime.

Is it a case of "no news is good news" wrt 80 Mile Beach van park?...W

80 mile caravan park looks ok....


http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-nat...0317-1vbky.html

"Peter Morris, the supervisor of the 80 Mile Beach Caravan Park, told AAP it looked as if the property had avoided severe damage, with a lot of wind and rain coming through but only the odd tree branch down in the park.

"We did expect to lose everything the way it looked earlier on.

"We were wiped out in 2009 in Cyclone Laurence which was a category 5 with just about every building smashed to pieces."

Mr Morris said the buildings had all since been replaced and had the highest-possible cyclone rating.

He said only five people were remained the park after all visitors and some staff left in recent days.

Robyn and John Forrester, the managers of the nearby Wallal Downs cattle station, locked up their property and were sheltering at the holiday park.

"You sit here in total apprehension of what you're going to find when you go home," Ms Forrester said."

Not sure thats a shot from the pilbara mate.

Tom, why that link you sent us has a picture of a typical US supercell at sunset?

Only passing on what I was requested to do mate- Watchen maybe able to add more information

Yea but that is a picture which has been copyrighted all over the internet, its a supercell at sunset from US. Not from Pilbara....

Thanks Mathew and Adam- I will remove photo immediately.

Morning all..

Does anyone know how Newman faired?

Newman appears likely to have faired oK. 982.7hpa up to 41knt gusts. Should see things looking OK I would imagine. But I guess wait for some reports to come in.

NEWMAN OBS

This also from SMH:

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-nat...0318-1vcud.html

Cheers Popeye, yup got the phone call all is ok.. tks

Sorry, Tom. Just saw the post. Was advised by someone in Pilbarra that was a photo from there. I'll know next time to only use my own photos, cant trust anybody these days.

and she is gone!!

PRIORITY

TROPICAL CYCLONE ADVICE NUMBER 40
Issued at 11:32 am WST on Sunday 18 March 2012

The Cyclone WARNING has been cancelled for the eastern Gascoyne, far western
Interior and far northern Goldfields including Three Rivers and Wiluna.

At 11:00 am WST Ex-Tropical Cyclone Lua was estimated to be
65 kilometres north of Wiluna
moving south at 35 kilometres per hour.

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Lua has weakened below tropical cyclone intensity.

Damaging wind gusts to 100 kilometres per hour are possible near the centre in
the eastern Gascoyne, western Interior and northern Goldfields during Sunday.

Heavy rainfall in the eastern Gascoyne, far northern Goldfields and far western
Interior should extend south into the remaining Goldfields during Sunday.
Rainfall should ease in the northern Gascoyne during the day.

A Severe Weather Warning is active for this system. Please refer to warning
[IDW28001] for more information.

Some very nice footage from around the Pardoo Rd house on channel seven about 15 mins ago.

It wasnt all that long but LOOKED awesome!!

There wasnt any credit or mention of who shot the footage

That was Ian badger from the roadhouse.

OK Dok, that also explains the mostly roadhouse footage. Plenty smashed trees and the rain/wind was howling

I noticed this footage on you tube. Someone's great timelapse footage of driving around town and is what nearly the whole town was doing as LUA was appraoching the coast. If you live here it makes more sense but it is pretty fast paced.

YOUTUBE BROOME LUA DRIVE