A tropical low intensified into Tropical Cyclone Stan on Thursday and it is moving toward Western Australia.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Stan was located at latitude 17.7\u00b0N and longitude 117.8\u00b0E which put it about 190 miles (305 km) north-northwest of Port Hedland, Australia.\u00a0 Stan was moving toward the south-southeast at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 995 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Stan is not particularly well organized.\u00a0 A primary rainband curves around the western side of the circulation, but there are not many thunderstorms in the eastern half of the cyclone.\u00a0 Upper level divergence is occurring to the west of the center, but not to the east of the center.<\/p>\n
The environment is marginally favorable for further intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Stan is over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 However, an upper level ridge east of Stan is generating easterly winds over the top of the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 The resulting vertical wind shear is inhibiting upper level divergence to the east of Stan.\u00a0 The tropical cyclone is extracting enough energy from the ocean to intensify but the vertical wind shear is slowing the rate of intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Stan is expected to continue to intensify until it makes landfall.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Stan is moving around the western end of a subtropical ridge which is steering it toward the south-southeast.\u00a0 The south-southeast motion is expected to continue for another 24 to 36 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Stan will make landfall on the coast of Western Australia near Port Hedland in about 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Stan could be near hurricane intensity when it makes landfall.\u00a0 It will be capable of causing some wind damage.\u00a0 Stan could also produce locally heavy rain and flooding.\u00a0 It will also cause some storm surge near where the center makes landfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A tropical low intensified into Tropical Cyclone Stan on Thursday and it is moving toward Western Australia.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Stan was located at latitude 17.7\u00b0N and longitude 117.8\u00b0E which put it about 190 miles (305 km) north-northwest of Port Hedland, Australia.\u00a0 Stan was moving toward the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,2],"tags":[333,334,332,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2173,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2172\/revisions\/2173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}