{"id":577,"date":"2015-03-19T16:03:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T16:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=577"},"modified":"2015-03-19T16:03:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T16:03:21","slug":"severe-tropical-cyclone-nathan-making-landfall-in-queensland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"Severe Tropical Cyclone Nathan Making Landfall in Queensland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The center of Severe Tropical Cyclone Nathan is very near the coast of Queensland and it is about to make landfall between Cape Flattery and Cape Melville.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Nathan was located at latitude 14.7\u00b0S and longitude 145.6\u00b0E which put it about 20 miles northeast of Cape Flattery and about 50 miles north-northeast of Cooktown, Australia.\u00a0 Nathan was moving toward the west at 11 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 105 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 140 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 953 mb.<\/p>\n<p>A subtropical ridge is steering Nathan westward and this motion is expected to continue.\u00a0 The center of Nathan will make landfall soon between Cape Flattery and Cape Melville.\u00a0 It is capable of producing wind damage and a significant storm surge near where the center crosses the coast.\u00a0 Nathan could also produce locally heavy rainfall and flooding in some locations.\u00a0 It is possible that the circulation could emerge intact over the Gulf of Carpentaria.\u00a0 In that case Nathan could re-intensify somewhat and possibly pose a risk to the western side of the Gulf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The center of Severe Tropical Cyclone Nathan is very near the coast of Queensland and it is about to make landfall between Cape Flattery and Cape Melville.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday the center of Nathan was located at latitude 14.7\u00b0S and longitude 145.6\u00b0E which put it about 20 miles northeast of Cape Flattery [&hellip;]<\/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":[93],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577"}],"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=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}