Jury still out on Yasi’s strength

The jury will soon decide whether Yasi really was a category five cyclone.

A year after it ripped through north Queensland, a group of experts will examine the latest evidence before deciding.

The Bureau of Meteorology currently lists Yasi as a borderline category five with estimated maximum wind gusts of 280 km/h.

The bureau’s Queensland regional director Jim Davidson says a workshop later this month with key stakeholders will help put the matter to bed.

“Some new information is likely to be presented at the workshop which should then enable the bureau to finalise the landfall intensity,” Mr Davidson told AAP.

Yasi crossed the coast near Mission Beach, in north Queensland, early on February 3 last year.

A lack of wind gauges around the landfall site has compounded the bureau’s task of categorising the cyclone.

The nearest official weather instrument was at Lucinda, 120km south of Mission Beach.

Mr Davidson said it took more than a year to settle on Cyclone Larry, which crossed the far north Queensland coast in March 2006, as a category four.

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