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April 25, 2006

Cyclone Monica degrades

To give you some idea of the amount of area Monica can sprawl over without actually hitting anyone: The Northern Territory has a phenomenally low population density, withabout 1/6th of Australia's total size (135 million hectares, or 333 million acres) and with a population of 201,000 or so - which comes to about 1650 acres per person.

April 25 (Bloomberg) -- Tropical Cyclone Monica, the fifth major storm to hit north Australia this year, maintained its track toward the south of the city of Darwin after being downgraded four levels of intensity to a category one storm.

It did smash its was through Maningrida (pop 2600) as a category 5, causing damage and, thankfully, no injuries.

Monica is travelling further south and more inland than original tracking projections indicated, weakening as it goes, and is still expected to cause widespread flooding in low areas. She will hit the Timor Sea shortly and is expected to regain strength.

Scrawled illegibly by Meathe at April 25, 2006 11:11 AM

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