{"id":22281,"date":"2025-04-18T13:00:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=22281"},"modified":"2025-04-18T13:00:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T13:00:55","slug":"tropical-cyclone-errol-makes-landfall-in-western-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=22281","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Cyclone Errol Makes Landfall in Western Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Cyclone Errol made landfall on the coast of Western Australia on Friday.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Errol was located at latitude 16.1\u00b0S and longitude 124.3\u00b0E which put the center about 20 miles (35 km) south-southwest of Kuri Bay, Australia.\u00a0 Errol was moving toward the east at 6 m.p.h. (10 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. (105 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 998 mb.<\/p>\n<p>Tropical Cyclone Errol made landfall on the coast of Western Australia south-southwest of Kuri Bay on Friday.\u00a0 Errol was weakening at the time of landfall.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Errol was the equivalent of a tropical storm when it made landfall.\u00a0 The circulation around Errol was small.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 70 miles (110 km) from the center of Tropical Cyclone Errol.<\/p>\n<p>An upper level trough near the coast of Western Australia will steer Tropical Cyclone Errol toward the east-southeast during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone Errol will move inland over Western Australia.\u00a0 The center of Errol&#8217;s circulation will move southeast of Kuri Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Tropical Cyclone Errol will bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain to parts of Western Australia south of Kuri Bay.\u00a0 Heavy rain could cause flash floods in some locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Cyclone Errol made landfall on the coast of Western Australia on Friday.\u00a0 At 5:00 a.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Errol was located at latitude 16.1\u00b0S and longitude 124.3\u00b0E which put the center about 20 miles (35 km) south-southwest of Kuri Bay, Australia.\u00a0 Errol was moving toward the east at 6 [&hellip;]<\/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":[2480,3911,1895,2481,3910,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22281"}],"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=22281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22282,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22281\/revisions\/22282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}