Tropical Cyclone Blanche strengthened on Sunday as it moved over the Timor Sea toward the coast of Western Australia.\u00a0 At 7:00 p.m. EST on Sunday the center of Tropical Cyclone Blanche was located at latitude 14.0\u00b0S and longitude 128.2\u00b0E which put it about 100 miles (165 km) north of Wyndham, Australia.\u00a0 Blanche was moving toward the southwest at 11 m.p.h. (17 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 988 mb.<\/p>\n
The inner core of Tropical Cyclone Blanche became more organized on Sunday.\u00a0 A band of thunderstorms wrapped about two thirds of the way around the southern and western portions of the center.\u00a0 The band has the appearance of a partial eyewall.\u00a0 The strongest winds are occurring in the band near the center.\u00a0 The thunderstorms are generating upper level divergence which is pumping out mass to the west and southeast of the Tropical Cyclone Blanche.\u00a0 The upper level divergence allowed the surface pressure to decrease and the wind speed to increase.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Blanche will be over the Timor Sea for a few more hours.\u00a0 It will be in an environment that is favorable for intensification during that time.\u00a0 Blanche will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 An upper level ridge east of Blanche is producing northerly winds which are blowing toward the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 The winds are causing moderate vertical wind shear, but the shear was not strong enough to prevent intensification on Sunday.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Blanche could intensify a little more before it makes landfall.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge is steering Tropical Cyclone Blanche toward the southwest and that general motion is expected to continue.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Blanche will make landfall on the coast of Western Australia northwest of Wyndham in a few hours.\u00a0 Blanche will bring gusty winds and some storm surge to the coast.\u00a0 It will cause locally heavy rain and the potential for flooding as it moves inland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Blanche strengthened on Sunday as it moved over the Timor Sea toward the coast of Western Australia.\u00a0 At 7:00 p.m. EST on Sunday the center of Tropical Cyclone Blanche was located at latitude 14.0\u00b0S and longitude 128.2\u00b0E which put it about 100 miles (165 km) north of Wyndham, Australia.\u00a0 Blanche was moving toward […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,2],"tags":[639,83,640,641,636,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705"}],"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=3705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3706,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3705\/revisions\/3706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}