Tropical Cyclone Zelia brought wind and rain to Western Australia on Friday.\u00a0 At 7:00 a.m. EST on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Zelia was located at latitude 21.1\u00b0S and longitude 119.6\u00b0E which put the center about 10 miles (20 km) west-northwest of Marble Bar, Australia.\u00a0 Zelia was moving toward the south-southeast at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 70 m.p.h. (110 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 85 m.p.h. (135 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 965 mb.<\/p>\n
The center of Tropical Cyclone Zelia made landfall on the coast of Western Australia about 45 miles (75 km) northeast of Port Hedland on Thursday night.\u00a0 Zelia was the equivalent of a major hurricane at the time of landfall.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 130 m.p.h. (210 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 160 m.p.h. (260 km\/h).<\/p>\n
At the time of landfall winds to hurricane\/typhoon force extended out 40 miles (65 km) from the center of Zelia\u2019s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 105 miles (165 km) from the center of Tropical Cyclone Zelia.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Tropical Cyclone Zelia was 25.1 . The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) was 13.9 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) was 39.0.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Zelia was similar in size and intensity to Hurricane Harvey when Harvey hit Texas in 2017.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Zelia brought strong winds and heavy rain to parts of Western Australia east of Port Hedland.\u00a0 A weather station in Port Hedland reported a sustained wind speed of 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The weather station reported a wind gust of 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h).\u00a0 The weather station also reported 6.14 inches (156 mm) of rain.<\/p>\n
A Flood Warning is in effect for the De Grey River.\u00a0 A Flood Warning is in effect for the Pilbara coastal Rivers. Flood Watches are in effect for the Onslow coast, the Fortescue River, the Ashburton River, the Gascoyne River, and parts of the Sandy Desert.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Tropical Cyclone Zelia will move around the northwestern side of a high pressure system over Australia.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Zelia toward the south during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, the center of Tropical Cyclone Zelia will pass between Nullagine and Munjina.<\/p>\n Tropical Cyclone Zelia will weaken steadily as it moves inland over Western Australia.\u00a0 Zelia will continue to bring strong winds and heavy rain to parts of Western Australia as it weakens.\u00a0 Heavy rain could cause additional flooding in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tropical Cyclone Zelia brought wind and rain to Western Australia on Friday.\u00a0 At 7:00 a.m. EST on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Zelia was located at latitude 21.1\u00b0S and longitude 119.6\u00b0E which put the center about 10 miles (20 km) west-northwest of Marble Bar, Australia.\u00a0 Zelia was moving toward the south-southeast at 10 m.p.h. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,48,2],"tags":[672,3852,2861,3838,3855,650,1903,3856,3224,1927,1935,979,936,673,3849,94,3850],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21998"}],"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=21998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21999,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21998\/revisions\/21999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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