An eye appears to be forming in the center of Tropical Cyclone Olwyn and it is near hurricane intensity.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Olwyn was located at latitude 18.5\u00b0S and longitude 114.8\u00b0E which put it about 210 miles northwest of Karratha and about 250 miles north-northeast of Exmouth, Australia.\u00a0 Olwyn was moving toward the south-southwest at 9 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 70 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 90 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 978 mb.<\/p>\n
The circulation around Olwyn became increasingly well organized on Wednesday and and eye appeared to develop.\u00a0 The stronger thunderstorms are on the western side of the eye and the circulation could be pulling in a little drier air on the eastern side.\u00a0 Olwyn is over warm Sea Surface Temperatures and the upper level winds are light.\u00a0 So, further intensification is possible before Olwyn makes landfall.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge is steering Olwyn in a generally southerly direction and that steering pattern is expected to continue.\u00a0 The projected track brings the center of Olwyn near Exmouth on the coast of Western Australia in about 18 to 24 hours.\u00a0 Owlyn has the potential to bring strong winds and a significant storm surge near the point of landfall.\u00a0 In addition it could bring locally heavy rainfall and the potential for floods as it moves inland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An eye appears to be forming in the center of Tropical Cyclone Olwyn and it is near hurricane intensity.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Olwyn was located at latitude 18.5\u00b0S and longitude 114.8\u00b0E which put it about 210 miles northwest of Karratha and about 250 miles north-northeast of Exmouth, […]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521"}],"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=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}