Tropical Cyclone Nora strengthened over the Gulf of Carpentaria on Friday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Nora was located at latitude 12.6\u00b0S and longitude 140.0\u00b0E which put it about 125 miles (205 km) west of Weipa, Australia.\u00a0 Nora was moving toward the southeast at 9 m.p.h. (14 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 110 m.p.h. (175 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 130 m.p.h. (210 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 956 mb.\u00a0 The Australian Bureau of Meteorology had issued a Warning for the portion of the coast from Karumba to Mapoon including Weipa and Mornington Island.\u00a0 A Watch was in effect for the portion of the coast from Weipa to the border between the Northern Territory and Queensland.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Nora strengthened on Friday as it entered the northern portion of the Gulf of Carpentaria.\u00a0 An eye appeared intermittently at the center of circulation.\u00a0 A band of stronger thunderstorms wrapped intermittently around the formative eye and the strongest winds were blowing in the band of thunderstorms.\u00a0 Bands of showers and thunderstorms were revolving around the center of circulation.\u00a0 Storms near the core of the circulation were generating upper level divergence which was pumping mass away from the tropical cyclone.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Nora will be moving through an environment favorable for intensification.\u00a0 Nora will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move under an area where the upper level winds are weak and there is little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Nora could strengthen into the equivalent of a major hurricane during the next 24 to 36 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Nora is moving near the western end of a mid-level ridge which is steering Nora toward the south.\u00a0 A general motion toward the south is expected to continue for another day or two.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Nora could approach the coast of Queensland between Kowanyama and the mouth of the Gilbert River in 24 to 36 hours.\u00a0 Nora could bring gusty winds and locally heavy rain to portions of northwestern Queensland.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Tropical Cyclone Marcus was weakening off the coast of Western Australia.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Marcus was located at latitude 25.9\u00b0S and longitude 107.5\u00b0E, which put it about 770 miles (1045 km) west of Carnarvon, Australia.\u00a0 Marcus was moving toward the south-southeast at 20 m.p.h. (32 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 65 m.p.h. (105 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 80 m.p.h. (130 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 984 mb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Nora strengthened over the Gulf of Carpentaria on Friday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m EDT on Friday the center of Tropical Cyclone Nora was located at latitude 12.6\u00b0S and longitude 140.0\u00b0E which put it about 125 miles (205 km) west of Weipa, Australia.\u00a0 Nora was moving toward the southeast at 9 m.p.h. (14 km\/h).\u00a0 The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[652,344,93,83,980,82,653,345,977,981,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695"}],"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=5695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5696,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695\/revisions\/5696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}