The center of Tropical Cyclone Olwyn has been moving roughly parallel to the coast of Western Australia and it is near Carnarvon.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Olwyn was located at latitude 24.6\u00b0S and longitude 113.4\u00b0E which put it about 20 miles northwest of Carnarvon and about 100 miles north of Denham, Australia.\u00a0 Olwyn was moving toward the south-southwest at 15 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 100 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 120 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 959 mb.\u00a0 Earlier on Thursday the airport at Learmonth measured sustained winds to 84 m.p.h. and a pressure of 970 mb when the center of Olwyn passed just to its west.<\/p>\n
Olwyn is being steered southward by a subtropical ridge to its east.\u00a0 The projected path takes the center of circulation inland and then moves it parallel to the coast.\u00a0 When Olwyn moves inland it will start to weaken.\u00a0 However, if there is a slight deviation of the track to the west which keeps the center of circulation over water for a longer period of time, it would keep the circulation stronger.\u00a0 The latter possibility would extend the risk for wind damage farther south along the coast.\u00a0 In either case, the clockwise rotation around the center and the shape of the coast could produce a significant storm surge in Shark Bay.\u00a0 There is also a potential for locally heavy rainfall and flooding near the coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The center of Tropical Cyclone Olwyn has been moving roughly parallel to the coast of Western Australia and it is near Carnarvon.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Tropical Cyclone Olwyn was located at latitude 24.6\u00b0S and longitude 113.4\u00b0E which put it about 20 miles northwest of Carnarvon and about 100 miles […]<\/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\/531"}],"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=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}