slight change of direction in the last update...
Imagine this...
Instead of it hitting the coast south of Yeppoon or Hervey Bay... it turns east and heads back to re-fuel so to speak and then returns with full fury.
I've learnt over the years about the Met Service from many countries... One thing they'll always do is exaggerate the situation. If they under exaggerate then 'heads' will roll.
One year when I was living in the South Island they forecasted a mild snow storm... unfortunately the snow was so heavy in August that farmers lost millions of stock heads. It was such an amazing storm of huge proportions that most of Canterbury in the South Island couldn't operate for weeks!
People questions the met service then big time... From there on in, even if it was a little flurry - they'd broadcast huge storms - just in case!
I assume it's the same with Cyclones.. always report it one category higher than it is and make poeple really prepare 'just in case' - because cyclones have this tendency to be slightly chaotic in their approach to land.
With this reporting if they said it's a Cat 3 cyclone, most people wouldn't care... Allow them to believe winds of up to 300km/hr are floating around the inside, action occurs. when it hits, no one is hurt, no one is killed, everyone is well prepared. Do heads roll at the BOM? Nope!
Do people say, thank god we prepared for the worst, but the worst never came? Yep!
