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English: On February 1, 2011, Tropical Cyclone Yasi continued on its path toward Queensland, Australia. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this natural-color image at 10:00 a.m. Queensland time (00:00 Universal Time) on February 1. The storm extends over the Solomon Islands and grazes Papua New Guinea. Part of the Queensland coast appears in the lower left corner.
At 1:00 a.m. Queensland time on February 2, the U.S. Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) reported that Yasi was roughly 450 nautical miles (835 kilometers) east-northeast of Cairns, Australia. Sporting a well-defined eye, Yasi had maximum sustained winds of 120 knots (220 kilometers per hour) and gusts up to 145 knots (270 kilometers per hour). True to earlier forecasts, favorable conditions led the storm to intensify rapidly over the Pacific Ocean. JTWC forecasters said Yasi would continue to strengthen and remain on a west-southwest track. The storm was expected to make landfall just south of Cairns, bringing high winds and potentially high waves. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that tens of thousands of residents were evacuating ahead of the storm’s anticipated landfall late on February 2 or early February 3.Deutsch: Am 1. Februar 2011 setzte der tropische Zyklon Yasi seinen Weg in Richtung des australischen Bundesstaates Queensland fort. Das Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) auf dem Terra-Satelliten der NASA nahm dieses Bild in natürlichen Farben um 10:00 Uhr Ortszeit (00:00 UTC) am 1. Februar auf. Der Sturm reicht über die Salomonen hinweg und streift Papua-Neuguinea. Teile der Küste von Queensland erscheinen in der linken unteren Ecke.
Um 1:00 Uhr Ortszeit am 2. Februar meldete das Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) der U.S. Navy, dass sich Yasi etwa 450 Seemeilen (rund 835 kilometers) ost-nordöstlcih von Cairns, Queensland befand. Yasi zeigte ein gutdefiniertes Auge und erreichte andauernde 1-minütige Windgeschwindigkeiten von 120 Knoten (rund 220 Kilometer pro Stunde) und entwickelte in Böen Windgeschwindigkeiten von bis zu 145 Knoten (270 Kilometer pro Stunde). Der Sturm bewahrheitete damit frühere Vorhersagen, nach denen günstige Bedingungen über dem Pazifischen Ozean zu einer rapiden Intensivierung führen würden. Die Meteorologen des JTWC sagten, dass sich Yasi weiter intensivieren und auf einem west-südwestlichen Kurs bleiben würde. Es wurde ein Landfall des Sturmes direkt südlich von Cairns erwartet. Der Sydney Morning Herald berichtete, daß zehntausende von Bewohnern vor dem erwarteten Landfall spät am 2. Februar oder früh am 3. Februar evakuiert werden würden. |
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| Source | http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/view.php?id=49066 |
| Author | NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC. Caption by Michon Scott. |
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