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wow, what an amazing picture!!
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Foggy Hamilton wrote:Her eye this morning NZST 12.55am
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Record setter she is :shock:

Looks like a belly button :D

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170-190kts at times now :shock: thats what 370kmh :? :shock: they saying its the biggest in the southern hemisphere id think now it would be biggest storm on earth since weather data records began hundreds years ago. 8)
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they saying its the biggest in the southern hemisphere id think now it would be biggest storm on earth since weather data records began hundreds years ago.
Yes but the only thing MonEca will blow over is wild gum trees unlike Southern USA where you have many major populated area's.
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it has move more SW and has now come ashore...and lost its eye....
darwin will still get a battering, but it might even go to the south of darwin?
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its moving more SSW and more inland and weakening all the time...Darwin is spared
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well darwin should only get a period of gales at the worst now boy she was the most strongest storm that i have ever seen dovork system had her at 868 at her peak what a storm the forcast mpas still says for a WSW movement and possible strengthening again then she gets back over water will beeintetrestig to see if the trough takes her south or of she gets on the next ridge and moves W or even WNW again
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monica died but she is coming back it is amazing to watch on radar her regenerating
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squid wrote:monica died but she is coming back it is amazing to watch on radar her regenerating
Yeah, I bumped into a woman at a funeral today, she was telling me all about her amazing son teaching aborigines in Alice Springs. I said "he'll get some rain soon", she LAUGHED at me and made a joke about that being ridiculous...... Monica's getting close to it...
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well monica tryed but failed to regenerate her remains dumped some good falls of rain across the NT and QLD and NSW
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