Tropical Cyclone Hayley brought wind and rain to Western Australia on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 10:00 a.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Hayley was located at latitude 16.7\u00b0S and longitude 123.7\u00b0E which put the center about 50 miles (80 km) north-northwest of Derby, Australia.\u00a0 Hayley was moving toward the east at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 85 m.p.h. (135 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 105 m.p.h. (165 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 969 mb.<\/p>\n
A Warning was in effect for the region from north of Beagle Bay to south of Kuri Bay, Australia.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Tropical Cyclone Hayley made landfall on the coast of Western Australia south of Lombadina on Tuesday morning.\u00a0 Hayley moved across the northern part of the Dampier Peninsula.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Haley was currently over King Sound.<\/p>\n The circulation around Tropical Cyclone Hayley was small.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane\/typhoon force extended out 20 miles (30 km) from the center of Hayley’s circulation.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 100 miles (160 km) from the center of Tropical Cyclone Hayley.<\/p>\n The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Tropical Cyclone Hayley was 12.7.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) was 7.9 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) was 20.6.<\/p>\n Tropical Cyclone Hayley will move around the northeastern part of an upper level trough over Western Australia.\u00a0 The upper level trough will steer Hayley toward the east during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone Hayley will make another landfall in Western Australia north of Derby in a few hours.<\/p>\n Tropical Cyclone Hayley will bring strong winds and locally heavy to parts of Western Australia north and east of Derby.\u00a0 Heavy rain could cause flash floods in some locations,<\/p>\n The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has issued a Severe Weather Warning for heavy rainfall for parts of the Kimberley District.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Elsewhere over the South Indian Ocean, Tropical Cyclone Grant was moving south-southeast of Diego Garcia.\u00a0 At 10:00 a.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Grant was located at latitude 14.8\u00b0S and longitude 75.1\u00b0E which put the center about 565 miles (910 km) south-southeast of Diego Garcia.\u00a0 Grant was moving toward the west-southwest at 16 m.p.h. (26 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 140 m.p.h. (225 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 165 m.p.h. (265 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 950 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tropical Cyclone Hayley brought wind and rain to Western Australia on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 10:00 a.m. EST on Tuesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Hayley was located at latitude 16.7\u00b0S and longitude 123.7\u00b0E which put the center about 50 miles (80 km) north-northwest of Derby, Australia.\u00a0 Hayley was moving toward the east at 15 m.p.h. (24 […]<\/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":[333,639,1912,4067,2858,352,4062,4064,650,4069,4070,1895,4068,334,640,4061,4063,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23789"}],"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=23789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23790,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23789\/revisions\/23790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}