The structure of Tropical Cyclone Nathan improved on Sunday and it intensified slowly.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Cyclone Nathan was located at latitude 13.9\u00b0N and longitude 149.8\u00b0 which put it about 300 miles east-northeast of Cooktown, about 420 miles north-northeast of Townsville, Australia and about 250 miles north of Willis Island.\u00a0 Nathan was moving toward the east-southeast at 3 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 65 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 80 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 984 mb.<\/p>\n
Spiral bands of thunderstorms wrapped around the center of circulation and the structure of Nathan looks more well organized.\u00a0 It is over warm Sea Surface Temperatures and the upper level winds are not too strong.\u00a0 As a result, Nathan appears to be developing stronger upper level outflow.\u00a0 The upper level outflow is pumping out mass, which is allowing the pressure to decrease and the wind speed to increase.\u00a0 The environment around Nathan could support further intensification during the next 48 hours.<\/p>\n
A ridge located northeast of Nathan is steering it slowly toward the south and that motion is likely to continue over the short term.\u00a0 The winds steering the tropical cyclone could weaken in 24 to 48 hours, which could result in a period of little movement.\u00a0 Later in the week a second ridge is expected to build northwest of Nathan and start to steer it westward which would move it closer to the east coast of Australia.\u00a0\u00a0 The projected track could bring Nathan very close to Willis Island in three or four days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The structure of Tropical Cyclone Nathan improved on Sunday and it intensified slowly.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Cyclone Nathan was located at latitude 13.9\u00b0N and longitude 149.8\u00b0 which put it about 300 miles east-northeast of Cooktown, about 420 miles north-northeast of Townsville, Australia and about 250 miles north of […]<\/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\/560"}],"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=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}