Tropical Cyclone Yvette turned toward western Australia on Friday.\u00a0 At 1:00 p.m. EST on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Yvette was located near latitude 15.1\u00b0S and longitude 117.3\u00b0E which put it about 370 miles (600 km) north-northwest of Port Headland, Australia.\u00a0 Yvette was moving toward the east-southeast at 8 m.p.h. (13 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
An upper level ridge located to the northeast of Yvette is generating strong northeasterly winds which are blowing across the top of the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 Those winds are creating strong vertical wind shear and for a time the strong upper levels winds sheared the top off of the circulation.\u00a0 The upper level winds weakened slightly and new thunderstorms developed near the center of Tropical Cyclone Yvette.\u00a0 The circulation of Yvette is very asymmetrical.\u00a0 Most of the new thunderstorms are forming west of the center of circulation, although a few storms recently formed east of the center.\u00a0 The upper level winds are also preventing upper level divergence to the east of Yvette.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Yvette will be moving through an environment that will be only marginally favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Yvette will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 So, there is enough energy in the upper ocean to support intensification.\u00a0 However, the strong upper level winds and vertical wind shear will inhibit intensification.\u00a0 It is possible that the shear could decrease when Yvette moves east and gets closer to the core of the upper level ridge.\u00a0 If the shear decreases, then some intensification may occur before Yvette reaches western Australia.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge is steering Tropical Cyclone Yvette toward the east-southeast and that general motion is expected to continue.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Yvette will reach the coast of Western Australia in about 36 hours.\u00a0 Landfall will likely occur between Cape Leveque and De Grey.\u00a0 The highest probability is for a landfall near Bidyadanga.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Yvette will produce locally heavy rain near where the center makes landfall.\u00a0 Heavy rain could create the potential for flash floods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Yvette turned toward western Australia on Friday.\u00a0 At 1:00 p.m. EST on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Yvette was located near latitude 15.1\u00b0S and longitude 117.3\u00b0E which put it about 370 miles (600 km) north-northwest of Port Headland, Australia.\u00a0 Yvette was moving toward the east-southeast at 8 m.p.h. (13 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum […]<\/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\/3534"}],"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=3534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3535,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions\/3535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}