Tropical Cyclone Debbie strengthened on Sunday as it moved nearer to the coast of Queensland.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Cyclone Debbie was located at latitude 19.1\u00b0S and longitude 150.4\u00b0E which put it about 155 miles (250 km) east-northeast of Bowen, Australia.\u00a0 Debbie was moving toward the south-southwest at 5 m.p.h. (7 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 100 m.p.h. (160 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 972 mb.<\/p>\n
The primary rainband finally wrapped entirely around the center of circulation of Tropical Cyclone Debbie on Sunday and an eye formed.\u00a0 The eye has a diameter of 35 miles (55 km).\u00a0 A ring of strong thunderstorms surrounds the eye and the strongest winds are occurring in that eyewall.\u00a0 Additional bands of showers and thunderstorms are revolving around the core of the circulation.\u00a0 The circulation is symmetrical and well organized.\u00a0 Thunderstorms around the core of the circulation are producing upper level divergence which is pumping out mass in all directions and the pressure is decreasing.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Debbie will be moving through an environment favorable for intensification until it makes landfall in Australia.\u00a0 Debbie will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 The winds in the upper levels are weak and there is little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Debbie will intensify until it makes landfall.\u00a0 Since an eye has formed, Tropical Cyclone Debbie could intensify rapidly on Monday.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Debbie is moving around a ridge over Australia.\u00a0 The ridge steered Debbie toward the south-southwest on Sunday.\u00a0 Debbie is expected to start to moving more toward the west-southwest on Monday.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Debbie could reach the coast of Queensland within 24 hours.\u00a0 The landfall will likely occur between Ayr and Mackay with the highest probability of a landfall near Bowen.<\/p>\n
The Hurricane Intensity Index (HII) for Tropical Cyclone Debbie is 11.5.\u00a0 The Hurricane Size Index (HSI) is 18.3 and the Hurricane Wind Intensity Size Index (HWISI) is 29.8.\u00a0 Those indices will increase as Tropical Cyclone Debbie strengthens on Monday.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Debbie will bring strong winds, storm surge and locally heavy rainfall to coastal regions of Queensland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Debbie strengthened on Sunday as it moved nearer to the coast of Queensland.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Cyclone Debbie was located at latitude 19.1\u00b0S and longitude 150.4\u00b0E which put it about 155 miles (250 km) east-northeast of Bowen, Australia.\u00a0 Debbie was moving toward the south-southwest at 5 […]<\/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":[649,78,82,648,646],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771"}],"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=3771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3774,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions\/3774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}