do you live in the pending cyclone pathway @TimeISmoney ?The centre is 360m from Brisbane but the heavy winds aren't far away.
The centre is heading straight for Brisbane, possible heavy rain from Coffs Habour to Bundaberg.
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25km south west of the Brisbane CBD.
stay safe ...25km south west of the Brisbane CBD.
As many here know I used to live there, probably somewhere near @TimeISmoney and still have many good friends outside of ASF there we keep in touch with... so praying for y'all.stay safe ...
Kind regards
rcw1
Take care25km south west of the Brisbane CBD.
A cyclone is coming in and now you want insurance! Tough titties! I'm with the insurance companies.Of interest:
Shock disaster note from insurers as cyclone Alfred nears coast - realestate.com.au
A shock move from insurers has stunned Australians bracing for impact from Tropical Cyclone Alfred.www.realestate.com.au
I get you, but it is also true as mentioned that you can not do an offer on a house in SEQld either for basically a weekA cyclone is coming in and now you want insurance! Tough titties! I'm with the insurance companies.
Good to see a bit of right wing coming out in you Knobby.A cyclone is coming in and now you want insurance! Tough titties! I'm with the insurance companies.
From experience, much better than BOM, which is not hard to do lately.common-sense, thou art a fickle friend
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As the weather bureau pumps out crucial cyclone information, millions look elsewhere
ByNick O'Malley and Bianca Hall
06 March, 2025
During the fraught wait for Cyclone Alfred to make landfall, millions of Australians are relying on the Bureau of Meteorology to update them on the storm’s expected trajectory, but increasingly, people are looking elsewhere, too, including a range of online independent and even amateur forecasters.
“We like to see ourselves as a weather family,” says Thomas Hinterdorfer, chief forecaster for Higgins Storm Chasing, an independent weather service that grew out of the social media accounts and blogs of a small group of storm chasers which now has around 1.3 million followers online. That’s more, says Hinterdorfer, than the Bureau of Meteorology.
Hinterdorfer, a 30-year-old who admits to being “addicted to extreme weather” for a decade, believes the group’s popularity is born of the interactive nature of their work as much as its forecasts.
“People hate seeing the damage caused by extreme weather,” he says, but they are “drawn into the wow factor of the storms and what they look like. They love the reports. They love seeing how much rain people are getting ... the size of the hail.
“I think with our social media page, people are definitely loving the fact that they can see all the storms. Whenever there’s a storm in Queensland, we’re going to see a photo of it; there’s gonna be someone that sends a photo in.”
But can people trust the predictions of amateur forecasters analysing a threat such as Cyclone Alfred compared with the staff of the BoM? Hinterdorfer reckons they can, boasting that though untrained, Higgins’ three full-time employees have 60 years of experience in forecasting and storm chasing between them.
“We know how to forecast, and we’re good at forecasting,” he says
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