{"id":451,"date":"2015-02-20T02:23:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T02:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=451"},"modified":"2015-02-20T02:23:02","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T02:23:02","slug":"tropical-cyclone-lam-moving-farther-inland-and-weakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Cyclone Lam Moving Farther Inland and Weakening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Cyclone Lam made landfall earlier today just to the southwest of Elcho Island on the north coast of Australia.\u00a0 Lam is continuing to move farther inland in the Northern Territory.\u00a0 At 9:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Lam was located at latitude 13.1\u00b0S and longitude 134.4\u00b0S which put it 40 miles north of Bulman and about 75 miles south-southwest of Milingimbi, Australia.\u00a0 It was moving toward the southwest at 10 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 65 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 90 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 985 mb.<\/p>\n<p>Lam will continue to weaken as it moves farther into the interior of Australia.\u00a0 The weakening will occur slowly because the circulation is moving over relatively flat terrain.\u00a0 Lam could produce locally heavy rainfall and the potential for flooding along its path.\u00a0 The winds and waves along the coast should continue to lessen and the water levels should decrease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tropical Cyclone Lam made landfall earlier today just to the southwest of Elcho Island on the north coast of Australia.\u00a0 Lam is continuing to move farther inland in the Northern Territory.\u00a0 At 9:00 p.m. EST on Thursday the center of Lam was located at latitude 13.1\u00b0S and longitude 134.4\u00b0S which put it 40 miles north [&hellip;]<\/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":[83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451"}],"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=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}