Nah! Just a little gust of wind mate. Nothing to worry about at all. If you must though, hold on tight.
Delta18 said
04:42 PM May 9, 2016
Just a Low Pressure Cell, not uncommon for them to be travelling across the southern half of the country in winter.
BaupleNut said
07:37 PM May 9, 2016
What? I can see why your wearing glasses!
DeBe said
11:50 PM May 9, 2016
Had them here before & probably have them again. Just a pretty strong breeze. Only one boat broke its mooring at Pondy, now up on the sandy beach.
Phil C said
04:23 PM May 12, 2016
BaupleNut wrote:
What? I can see why your wearing glasses!
Gee thanks.
I did say it may be a cyclone, I read on a met page they called it a low level cyclone. Thanks again
Hylife said
07:41 PM May 12, 2016
Phil C wrote:
BaupleNut wrote:
What? I can see why your wearing glasses!
Gee thanks.
I did say it may be a cyclone, I read on a met page they called it a low level cyclone. Thanks again
All low barometric pressure systems are called cyclones and high pressure systems are called anticyclones. In the southern hemisphere all cyclones rotate inwards in a clockwise direction and anticyclones rotate antclockwise. The northern hemisphere is reversed.
The more recognised Aussie term for a severe cyclone is a "Tropical Cyclone", and this is often seen with unique names on Meteorology maps as 'TC something', however not all severe cyclones form in tropical regions so this too is not strictly correct. Perhaps the colloquial term Hurricane is better.
When I was a kid the nightly weather on TV in my neck of the woods used to just call them 'highs' and 'lows', and houses had a barometer on the wall that was monitored each day (with a light tap-tap on the glass) so that we could see how quickly the air pressure was rising or falling, and this gave us an indication as to how severe a storm would be.
What do other GNs think we should call low pressure systems?
BruDi said
01:19 PM May 14, 2016
We still use a barometer; love it. You're right Hylife. Southern Australia gets its winter rains and weather from the Westerly wind system which is cyclonic.
Tropical Cyclones are called Hurricanes in other parts of the world and Typhoons, but their naming is part of a world-wide system and any that originate in another region retain that name when they move into a new region.
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it's a duck!! hmmmmm
Just a Low Pressure Cell, not uncommon for them to be travelling across the southern half of the country in winter.
Had them here before & probably have them again. Just a pretty strong breeze. Only one boat broke its mooring at Pondy, now up on the sandy beach.
Gee thanks.
I did say it may be a cyclone, I read on a met page they called it a low level cyclone. Thanks again
All low barometric pressure systems are called cyclones and high pressure systems are called anticyclones. In the southern hemisphere all cyclones rotate inwards in a clockwise direction and anticyclones rotate antclockwise. The northern hemisphere is reversed.
The more recognised Aussie term for a severe cyclone is a "Tropical Cyclone", and this is often seen with unique names on Meteorology maps as 'TC something', however not all severe cyclones form in tropical regions so this too is not strictly correct.
Perhaps the colloquial term Hurricane is better.
When I was a kid the nightly weather on TV in my neck of the woods used to just call them 'highs' and 'lows', and houses had a barometer on the wall that was monitored each day (with a light tap-tap on the glass) so that we could see how quickly the air pressure was rising or falling, and this gave us an indication as to how severe a storm would be.
What do other GNs think we should call low pressure systems?
We still use a barometer; love it. You're right Hylife. Southern Australia gets its winter rains and weather from the Westerly wind system which is cyclonic.
Tropical Cyclones are called Hurricanes in other parts of the world and Typhoons, but their naming is part of a world-wide system and any that originate in another region retain that name when they move into a new region.
Di