Reply #15: Sometimes it's hard to recognise an event from it's write-up.

[Kailassa]

And yes, the different reports are puzzling. I guess the one you first cited was giving readings from predetermined times of the day rather than when the storm reached its maximum intensity.

I had been looking at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology for the cat5 warning I had read when it was hitting, but they don't seem to store old warnings on the site.

But the important aspect is that it was one more huge storm of the sort that global warming is making more and more common in our world.