Tropical Cyclone Nora made landfall on the coast of Queensland near Pormpuraaw on Saturday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Nora was located at latitude 15.8\u00b0S and longitude 141.8\u00b0E which put it about 30 miles (50 km) south of Kowanyama, Australia.\u00a0 Nora was moving toward the south-southeast at 15 m.p.h. (24 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 979 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Nora moved across the northern Gulf of Carpentaria and made landfall near Pormpuraaw earlier on Saturday.\u00a0 A weather station at Kowanyama, which is south of the original landfall recorded a sustained wind speed of 44 m.p.h. (70 km\/h) and a wind gust of 62 m.p.h. (100 km\/h).\u00a0 The station also recorded five inches (128 mm) of rain.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Nora is forecast to move southward near the coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria for another 12 to 18 hours.\u00a0 Nora is then expected to move westward across the southern end of the Gulf of Carpentaria.\u00a0 The Australian Bureau of Meteorology was maintaining a warning for the portion of the coast from Pormpuraaw to Karumba.\u00a0 A Watch was in effect for the portion of the coast from Karumba to the border between Queensland and the Northern Territory.\u00a0 In addition to bringing gusty winds to the coast of Queensland, Tropical Cyclone Nora will drop locally heavy rain.\u00a0 The heavy rain could cause flash flooding in some places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Nora made landfall on the coast of Queensland near Pormpuraaw on Saturday.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Nora was located at latitude 15.8\u00b0S and longitude 141.8\u00b0E which put it about 30 miles (50 km) south of Kowanyama, Australia.\u00a0 Nora was moving toward the south-southeast at 15 m.p.h. […]<\/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":[344,78,93,83,82,345,981],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701"}],"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=5701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5702,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5701\/revisions\/5702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}