A Tropical Low pressure system brought wind and rain to northern Australia on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of the Tropical Low was located at latitude 12.1\u00b0S and 131.5\u00b0E which put it about 45 miles (75 km) east-northeast of Darwin, Australia.\u00a0 The Tropical Low was moving toward the west-southwest at 8 m.p.h. (12 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 35 m.p.h. (55 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1000 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation of the Tropical Low is not very well organized.\u00a0 Many of the thunderstorms are occurring in the outer portions of the circulation.\u00a0 There are mostly showers, and only a few thunderstorms, near the center of circulation.\u00a0 There are a few rainbands near the periphery of the circulation, but there is not a well formed core at the center.\u00a0 The poor organization is preventing the Tropical Low from generating much upper level divergence and as a result the surface pressure has changed little during the past 24 hours.<\/p>\n
A significant portion of the circulation of the Tropical Low is over land and that is inhibiting development of the system.\u00a0 In addition, an upper level ridge to the east of the Tropical Low is producing northerly winds which are blowing across the top of the circulation.\u00a0 Those winds are causing moderate vertical wind shear which is also inhibiting development.\u00a0 The Tropical Low is moving toward the west-southwest and the center is forecast to move over the Timor Sea.\u00a0 If the center of circulation moves over the Timor Sea, it will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 More energy from the water could offset the effects of the vertical wind shear and the Tropical Low could intensify into a tropical cyclone.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge east of the Tropical Low is steering the system toward the west-southwest and that general motion is expected to continue during the next several days.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of the Tropical Low will move near the northern coast of Australia.\u00a0 If the center emerges over the Timor Sea, then the system could intensify into a tropical cyclone.\u00a0 If the center remains over land, then further development will not occur.\u00a0 In either case the Tropical Low will bring gusty winds and heavy rains to the northern coastal regions of the Northern Territory and Western Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A Tropical Low pressure system brought wind and rain to northern Australia on Tuesday.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of the Tropical Low was located at latitude 12.1\u00b0S and 131.5\u00b0E which put it about 45 miles (75 km) east-northeast of Darwin, Australia.\u00a0 The Tropical Low was moving toward the west-southwest at 8 […]<\/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":[656,637,83,657,329,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827"}],"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=3827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3828,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions\/3828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}