Tropical Cyclone Koji brought wind and rain to Queensland on Saturday night.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of the Tropical Cyclone Koji was located at latitude 20.3\u00b0S and longitude 147.5\u00b0E which put the center about 45 miles (75 km) west of Bowen, Australia.\u00a0 Koji was moving toward the south-southwest at 10 m.p.h. (16 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 992 mb.<\/p>\n
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology was maintaining a Warning for the portion of the coast of Queensland from Ayr to Mackay.\u00a0 The Warning included Bowen and Proserpine.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The center of Tropical Cyclone Koji made landfall on the coast of Queensland between Ayr and Bowen on Saturday night.\u00a0 The circulation around Koji was large.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out 185 miles (295 km) from the center of Koji’s circulation.<\/p>\n Tropical Cyclone Koji will move around the western side of a high pressure system that is east of Australia.\u00a0 The high pressure system will steer Koji toward the southwest during the next 24 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track, Tropical Cyclone Koji will move inland over eastern Queensland.<\/p>\n Tropical Cyclone Koji will continue to bring strong winds and rain to parts of Queensland as it moves inland.\u00a0 Heavy rain could cause floods in some locations.\u00a0 The circulation around Tropical Cyclone Koji will weaken gradually as Koji moves farther inland.<\/p>\n Major Flood Warnings are in effect for the Herbert River, the Pioneer River, the Flinders River, the Concurry Rivers, and the Haughton River Catchment.\u00a0 Moderate Flood Warnings are in effect for the Bohle River, the Don River, the Norman River, the Thompson River, and the Tully River.\u00a0 Flood Warnings are in effect for the Gilbert River, the Black River and Bluewater Creek.\u00a0 Flood Watches are in effect for the Coastal Rivers between Cooktown and Rockhampton, and for the Cape York Peninsula.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tropical Cyclone Koji brought wind and rain to Queensland on Saturday night.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of the Tropical Cyclone Koji was located at latitude 20.3\u00b0S and longitude 147.5\u00b0E which put the center about 45 miles (75 km) west of Bowen, Australia.\u00a0 Koji was moving toward the south-southwest 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":[81,76,2],"tags":[649,78,3534,3528,4076,3527,4078,82,648,4075],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23845"}],"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=23845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23846,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23845\/revisions\/23846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}