cyclone plans

Right. It is less than three days before I am supposed to hop on a plane and head to Israel. Unfortunately, the weather may make this a bit more up in the air that it should be. It seems that tropical cyclone Ingrid is headed this way, and according to the predictions, could well be parked on top of Darwin on Monday. I'm not terribly keen on taking a plane through a cyclone. I'll certainly be keeping up with the models to see how likely I am to actually leave here on Monday. This is at least the second time, if not the third, when my plane trips from Darwin have been threatened by cyclones. Nothing really happened before, but Ingrid is being particularly tenacious. This cyclone went from a category 1 to a category 5 in a single day, and proceeded to bash into Queensland. Now it is threatening the Top End. And to think I was complaining about the lack of rain we've been having...