This week #AdriftLab was joined by Tanya, a #TradtionalOwner from Kepa Kurl/Esperance. We traveled to northern Australia (☀️Tanya’s home Country, yay!) and this morning, we flew to a remote #island to undertake a damage assessment after #CycloneIlsa. Sad to say, there was significant mortality of the breeding #seabirds with very few individuals of an #endemic species left alive 🐦🏝🌀

🇦🇺 Les prochaines heures s'annoncent critiques pour le nord de l'#Australie occidentale qui se prépare
à l'arrivée du #cyclone #Isla.
Sur la trajectoire, la station sur Bedout Island a déjà enregistré des vents moyens >200km/h et rafales à près de 290 km/h selon @BOM_au
RT @BOM_WA: #CycloneIlsa has set a new preliminary Australian ten-minute sustained wind speed record of 218km/h at Bedout Island! Cyclone George was the previous record holder with 194km/h back in 2007 at the very same location! For the latest https://t.co/6laIpVWtSM

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/meteofrance/status/1646558778454573058

[13/04 16:59]

My husband lives in #PortHedland so we had a VERY tense couple days as #CycloneIlsa approached (made landfall as a Category FIVE storm only 130 kn of town). Thankfully, he’s fine but…the #seabird breeding island I’ve been working on definitely is not 😢🐦🏝 #BedoutIsland #RowleyShoals

RT @a_m_leonard
This road sign was no match for Cat 5 Ilsa… #cycloneIlsa

Sunset on Severe Tropical Cyclone #Ilsa over Western Australia #CycloneIlsa #weather #WX

RT @BOM_au
This satellite loop shows the track of #CycloneIlsa as it developed over the past 5 days before crossing the Pilbara coast between De Gray and Pardoo Roadhouse as a category 5 system at about midnight AWST on Thursday 13 April. http://ow.ly/IGmy50NIU7t http://ow.ly/SjnY50NISbM

Severe Tropical Cyclone #Ilsa over Western Australia earlier today #CycloneIlsa #weather #WX

RT @10NewsFirstPER
"Being an immigrant, this was our first business ... it was our baby."

Pardoo Roadhouse owner Varinder Batth says it will take at least two years to rebuild after his iconic store was "wiped out" by #CycloneIlsa.

Hear his survival story tonight at 5pm | https://10play.com.au/news

Le cyclone s'affaiblit en avançant sur les terres semble-t-il ...
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RT @WMO
Severe Tropical #CycloneIlsa made landfall in NW Australia as Cat 5 storm. Set a preliminary Australian 10-min speed record of 218 km/h.
Now at Category 3 as it heads inland. 132mm of rain in 24 hours in one of worst hit areas, per @BOM_WA

#EarlyWarningsForAll
https://twitter.com/WMO/status/1646780360565436417

RT @michlstan
It's business time! Port of Port Hedland has reopened. This was the first ship to enter. #CycloneIlsa #TCIlsa

There aren't many alternatives nearby so I'm guessing the #Pardoo roadhouse (Western Australia) will be operational again within 6 hours.

#Ilsa #CycloneIlsa #Weather

RT @10NewsFirstPER
#Breaking: The first images of destruction wreaked by Tropical #CycloneIlsa have shown Pardoo Roadhouse "wiped out", but owners have vowed "she can't take away our spirit".

They said the Category 5 storm caused around $4 million worth of damage but given the roadhouse's… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1646700610883035137

RT @VortixWx
Some of the images of Pardoo Roadhouse & Tavern trashed after #Ilsa’s wrath. This location was in the eye of the storm & basically where ground zero was from 1 of #WesternAustralia’s strongest cyclones.
#tropicswx #WAStorm #CycloneIlsa
📷: Pardoo Roadhouse & Tavern
(Link below)

Tropical #CycloneIlsa was upgraded to a category five storm which is the strongest on the scale.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/australia-cyclone-ilsa-updates-biggest-cyclone-in-decade-hits-australia-with-record-wind-speeds-top-updates-101681430120819.html #press

Australia: Tropical cyclone Ilsa hits northwest coast

https://www.dw.com/en/australia-tropical-cyclone-ilsa-hits-northwest-coast/a-65309205?maca=en-dipa_news_mstdn-34613-xml-mrss

#Australia #cyclone #cycloneilsa #porthedland #ironore

#CycloneIlsa over in Australia it's a rare and highest catagory, CAT-5 cyclone. Reports say new wind speed record of 135.459 mph (US/UK) 218km/h. (rest of world).

It is the mother of all storms!

Severe Tropical Cyclone #Ilsa at sunrise over Western Australia #CycloneIlsa #weather #WX

RT @jennamclarke
Overheard in a (Sydney) newsroom: “Surely they can just drive the crews between Port Hedland and Broome” (for #CycloneIlsa coverage).

Narrator:

RT @michlstan
Thankfully a very uneventful night in Port Hedland, with wind gusts recorded at the airport less than 70km/h. Not sure what it was right on the coast. Really feeling for those in the hit zone. #tcilsa #cycloneilsa is still at cat3 strength closing in on Telfer.

I’m sure there will be attribution studies to come, but it’s widely accepted that global heating is leading to less frequent but more severe tropical cyclones. Which is probably irreversible and sucks, in short.

#CycloneIlsa #TCIlsa #SevereWeather #ClimateChange #GlobalHeating