Cyclone reaches maximum winds over land, NOT ocean, at Australian shoreline.

Cyclone Ida - that is Australia. The strongest winds hit Category 4 OVER LAND. The heat of the land was absorbed by the cyclone and in less than 12 hours Ida went from 90 knots to 115 knots and it kept going to reach a maximum 135 knots. 135 knots equals 155 mph. The sustained high winds that moved Ida to a Category 4 cyclone ONLY occurred over land. In measurement 14, Ida spun it's acquired heat from land over ocean and then returned to it's Cat 1. 

Ida absorbed 'super heat' along the Northeast Australian shoreline to deposit it in the ocean. All that heat that drove that cyclone to 155 mph winds ended up in the ocean.

Got that? The land is so hot it fuels super storms and this is NEAR shore where there is an ocean - land interface where air is cooler than inland.

I suppose the oceans are getting hot, huh?

10 -11.50  150.20 04/09/06Z   80     - CYCLONE-1
 11 -11.70  148.70 04/09/18Z   90     - CYCLONE-2
 12 -12.50  147.10 04/10/06Z  115     - CYCLONE-4
 13 -13.30  146.00 04/10/18Z  135     - CYCLONE-4
 14 -14.50  145.40 04/11/06Z  125     - CYCLONE-4
 15 -15.50  145.00 04/11/18Z   75     - CYCLONE-1

Ida went on to flood New Zealand and move sediment into rivers. They needed 

the rain, but, they didn't need the erosion.

10:16 AM Wednesday Apr 16, 2014

...The MetService (click here) said rainfall could also approach warning amounts about eastern parts of Northland, Auckland and Coromandel Peninsula tomorrow, with northeasterly gales possibly becoming severe for a time.
In eastern parts of Northland, the ex-cyclone could bring 100mm of rain and wind gusts of 100km/h.
WeatherWatch said the remnants of Ita would bring rain to parched areas around the North Island, including Northland, Auckland, Waikato and Manawatu....

These two events occurred  six days apart. Why? Because Ida stalled and delivered wind and rain for a week and is still there today.

2:28 PM Tuesday Apr 22, 2014

Widespread flooding, (click here) heavy rainfall and gale force winds caused road closures, power outages and slips around New Zealand on April 17 and 18. The rough conditions have been fuelled by ex-Cyclone Ita with the tail end of the tropical storm hitting the islands overnight on April 17. The winds blew down a large tree in Nelson, on the north tip of the South Island, which was captured on camera by YouTube/Derek Sivers.

The tree below fell because of days upon days of wind and rain. There is no reason this healthy pine tree should have toppled. The soil became saturated at depth and the wind simply finished the job.