Tropical Cyclone Alfred brought wind and rain to Brisbane on Friday.\u00a0 At 10:00 a.m. EST on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Alfred was located at latitude 27.4\u00b0S and longitude 153.4\u00b0E which put the center about 45 miles (75 km) east of Brisbane, Australia.\u00a0 Alfred was moving toward the west-northwest at 5 m.p.h. (8 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 985 mb.<\/p>\n
A Warning is in effect for the portion of the coast from Noosa, Queensland to Ballina, New South Wales.\u00a0 The Warning includes Brisbane.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Tropical Cyclone Alfred brought wind and rain to the area around Brisbane, Australia on Friday.\u00a0 A band of heavier rain and stronger winds stretched from Southport through Beenleigh to Brisbane.<\/p>\n A weather station at the airport in Brisbane reported a sustained wind speed of 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and a wind gust of 58 m.p.h. (93 km\/h).\u00a0 The airport had received 0.79 inches (20.2\u00a0 mm) of rain.\u00a0 A weather station at Coolangatta reported a sustained wind speed of 37 m.p.h. (59 km\/h) and a wind gust of 62 m.p.h. (100 km\/h).<\/p>\n Tropical Cyclone Alfred was the equivalent of a tropical storm when it made landfall on the east coast of Australia.\u00a0 The circulation around Alfred was large.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 275 miles (445 km) from the center of Tropical Cyclone Alfred.<\/p>\n Tropical Cyclone Alfred will move around the northern side of a high pressure system that is southeast of Australia.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Tropical Cyclone Alfred toward the west during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, the center of Tropical Cyclone Alfred will pass near Brisbane during\u00a0 the next few hours.<\/p>\n Tropical Cyclone Alfred will continue to bring strong winds and locally heavy rain to southeast Queensland and northeast New South Wales. \u00a0 Bands in the southern side of Alfred\u2019s circulation will drop the heaviest rain.\u00a0 Heavy rain is likely to cause flash floods in some locations.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Alfred will also be capable of causing a storm surge of up to six feet (1.8 meters) along portions of the coast.<\/p>\n A Flood Watch is in effect for southeast Queensland.\u00a0 A Flood Watch is also in effect for the northern rivers of New South Wales.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tropical Cyclone Alfred brought wind and rain to Brisbane on Friday.\u00a0 At 10:00 a.m. EST on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Alfred was located at latitude 27.4\u00b0S and longitude 153.4\u00b0E which put the center about 45 miles (75 km) east of Brisbane, Australia.\u00a0 Alfred was moving toward the west-northwest at 5 m.p.h. (8 km\/h).\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,76,2],"tags":[347,3857,78,3886,3888,971,970,3885,82,348,3887,631],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22125"}],"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=22125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22126,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22125\/revisions\/22126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}