Tropical Cyclone Dianne brought wind and rain to Western Australia on Friday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Dianne was located at latitude 16.6\u00b0S and longitude 123.8\u00b0E which put the center about 75 miles (120 km) north-northeast of the Derby, Australia.\u00a0 Dianne was moving toward the south at 8 m.p.h. (13 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 991 mb.<\/p>\n
A Warning is in effect for the portion of the coast between Kuri Bay and Derby.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The center of Tropical Cyclone Dianne made landfall on the coast of Western Australia north-northeast of Derby.\u00a0 Dianne was the equivalent of a tropical storm at the time of landfall.\u00a0 The circulation around Tropical Cyclone Dianne was small.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force only extended out 65 miles (105 km) from the center of Dianne’s circulation.<\/p>\n Tropical Cyclone Dianne will move around the western end of a high pressure system over northern Australia.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Dianne toward the south during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone Dianne will move inland over Western Australia during the next 24 hours.<\/p>\n Tropical Cyclone Dianne will bring strong winds and locally heavy rain to parts of Western Australia.\u00a0 Heavy rain could cause flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n Flood Watches are in effect for the Tanami Desert, the Western Desert and the Sandy Desert.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Elsewhere over the South Indian Ocean, Tropical Cyclone Courtney intensified to the equivalent of a major hurricane southwest of the Cocos Islands.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Courtney was located at latitude 17.6\u00b0S and longitude 92.5\u00b0E which put the center about 445 miles (715 km) southwest of the Cocos Islands.\u00a0 Courtney was moving toward the west-southwest at 18 m.p.h. (30 km\/h).\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).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 948 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tropical Cyclone Dianne brought wind and rain to Western Australia on Friday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Dianne was located at latitude 16.6\u00b0S and longitude 123.8\u00b0E which put the center about 75 miles (120 km) north-northeast of the Derby, Australia.\u00a0 Dianne was moving toward the south at 8 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":[1506,3226,67,3895,2858,3897,1895,936,1507,3898,3899,3894,3896,94,3900],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22208"}],"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=22208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22209,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22208\/revisions\/22209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}