From: John Cuccia 

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 10:35:53 +0100, Adam
<""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near the
bridge"> wrote:

>> I'm just warning that any people planning to mass-migrate to Australia as
>> a backup plan may find it not as hospitable as they hoped.
>>
>
>Ah but what happens if it stops being the driest continent? Say 30 years
>of serious storms making it all the way to the interior?
>
>Imagine if stuff starts to spin off the Pacific just like it does off
>the atlantic.

No need to imagine that at all, there's a monster Pacific storm (220mph
gusts!!!) threatening Australia as we speak:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WEATHER/04/23/cyclone.monica.ap/
Cyclone Monica, a slow-moving maximum category-five tropical storm,
buffeted Aboriginal communities on the western shores of the Gulf of
Carpentaria on Sunday night and halted production at an alumina refinery.

Monica, with winds gusting at 350 kph (220 mph), was about 520 km (320
miles) northeast of the tropical city of Darwin on Monday, the Bureau of
Meteorology said

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