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Premier Steven Miles says that it is critical that everyone in the warning zone was prepared as Cyclone Kirrily tracks south-west towards the Queensland coast.
“That’s the best way you can make sure that you don’t need assistance from our volunteers and our SES” he said.
“I know you lot are used to this, but all I’m saying is, don’t get caught sleeping when Kirrily makes landfall”
“She seems rather gentle right now, but if we catch her on a bad day, she’ll raise hell”
The warning zone stretches from Ayr to Mackay, including Mackay, Bowen and the Whitsunday Islands. A watch zone is in place from Cairns to Ayr, including Townsville, and heading inland to Charters Towers.
Meanwhile the Bureau of Meteorology says damaging wind gusts up to 120km/h are expected on the Whitsundays from this afternoon with destructive 155km/h gusts on the mainland from Thursday.
Speaking to the Betoota Advocate today, BOM spokesperson Darren Beetson says that the tropical cyclones you wanna watch out for are the ones with tuckshop mum names.
“Regardless of category, we’ve found the weather systems that have names that sound like a firey mum on footy training drop off are gonna be the ones that cause the most chaos”
The spokesperson went on to rattle off the more destructive weather events over the past 100 years – all of which sound like they could be high-ranking members of the Betoota C.W.A.
“We all remember Trace. Darwin had to rebuild itself after Trace”
“Deb wasn’t much better”
“And Yasi… That’s a more Millennial tuckshop mum name but yes – she definitely makes the list”
When asked if there are any other patterns to the names of their cyclones, the BOM admitted that the next tier of severity are the cyclones that sound like the party-boy bachelor uncles.
“Larry. Jasper. Hamish”
“We all remember seeing those boys in action”
