Another tropical cyclone formed in an elongated trough of low pressure over the southwestern Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Nathan was located at latitude 13.8\u00b0S and longitude 146.8\u00b0E which put it about 150 miles northeast of Cooktown, Australia and about 250 miles south of Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.\u00a0 It was moving toward the west-southwest at 9 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 60 m.p.h. and there were wind gusts to 80 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 989 mb.<\/p>\n
Nathan is over warm Sea Surface Temperatures, but it is being partly influenced by some of the upper level outflow from large Tropical Cyclone Pam which is located farther east.\u00a0 The wind shear is reducing the rate of intensification, but the environment is favorable enough that continued intensification is likely during the next day or two.<\/p>\n
The track forecast for Nathan has a high degree of uncertainty.\u00a0 It is currently being steered to the west-southwest by a subtropical ridge that is north of the circulation center.\u00a0 That ridge is predicted to weaken and westerly winds are expected to turn the tropical cyclone back toward the east.\u00a0 However, the timing of that turn is important.\u00a0 The center of Nathan could come very close to the coast of Queensland.\u00a0 If the turn does not occur, Nathan could bring high winds and heavy rain to portions of northern Queensland.<\/p>\n
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Another tropical cyclone formed in an elongated trough of low pressure over the southwestern Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EDT on Tuesday the center of Tropical Storm Nathan was located at latitude 13.8\u00b0S and longitude 146.8\u00b0E which put it about 150 miles northeast of Cooktown, Australia and about 250 miles south of Port Moresby, Papua […]<\/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":[78,91,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507"}],"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=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}