The circulation of a tropical low northwest of Australia continued to organize on Wednesday and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology named the system Tropical Cyclone Yvette.\u00a0 At 7:00 a.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Yvette was located at latitude 14.2\u00b0N and longitude 114.2\u00b0E which put it about 515 miles (830 km) northwest of Port Headland, Australia.\u00a0 Yvette was making a slow clockwise loop and it was basically stationary.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (70 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 991 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of Tropical Cyclone Yvette is asymmetrical.\u00a0 It has a well developed low level circulation but most of the thunderstorms are developing southwest of the center.\u00a0 An upper level ridge over Australia is generating northeasterly winds which are blowing across the top of the circulation.\u00a0 The moderate vertical wind shear is probably the reason why most of the thunderstorms are southwest of the center of circulation.\u00a0 The upper level winds are inhibiting divergence to the east of Yvette, but they are enhancing the divergence to the west of the tropical cyclone.<\/p>\n
The environmental factors are marginally favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Yvette will be moving over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 The upper level winds are forecast to weaken and the vertical wind shear could decrease during the next several day.\u00a0 As a result, Tropical Cyclone Yvette could slowly strengthen.<\/p>\n
Winds at the steering level are currently variable around Yvette and as a result the tropical cyclone has made several clockwise loops.\u00a0 The upper level ridge over Australia is forecast to extend west and the ridge is expected to steer Tropical Cyclone Yvette toward Western Australia.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Yvette is expected to approach the coast of Western Australia in three or four days.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Yvette could bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain when it makes landfall.\u00a0 Yvette could also generate a storm surge near where the center makes landfall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The circulation of a tropical low northwest of Australia continued to organize on Wednesday and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology named the system Tropical Cyclone Yvette.\u00a0 At 7:00 a.m. EST on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Yvette was located at latitude 14.2\u00b0N and longitude 114.2\u00b0E which put it about 515 miles (830 km) northwest […]<\/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":[598,78,599,597,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517"}],"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=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3518,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions\/3518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}