TC Odette

http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDQP0005.txt</a><BR><BR><a href="http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDQP0005.txt">http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDQP0005.txt</a>

Oh Chris, I can feel spen's blood pressure rising already!

Lol, #1!

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ65002.shtml</a><BR><BR>There was one news item from the Gold Coast Bulletin that even I consider alarmist, so I won't add it here.

um, it's not a cyclone yet....but if it turns into one it will be called Odette.

Pumkinhead Pete will be on his knees praying for big licks of depressional rain.

"GALES could develop on the coast and Islands between
Ayr and St. Lawrence later on Sunday as the system intensifies." Source: BoM

As it's a Friday, & the end of the working week, I'd say the BoM are covering their backs for Monday, in case there's any adverse impact over the weekend. But SEQ could sure use the rain.

And TC George looks like forming in the Timor Sea west of Darwin, over the weekend, too.

Lock up your bananas!