The center of Tropical Cyclone Nathan is moving inland near Nhulunbuy, Australia.\u00a0 At 9:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Nathan was located at latitude 12.6\u00b0S and longitude 136.8\u00b0E which put it about 25 miles south of Nhulunbuy and about 90 miles north-northeast of Alyangula, Australia.\u00a0 Nathan was moving toward the northwest at 8 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum wind speed was 75 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 90 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 979 mb.<\/p>\n
The atmospheric environment around Tropical Cyclone Nathan is favorable for intensification.\u00a0 The upper level winds are light.\u00a0 The circulation is well organized and there is upper level outflow pumping out mass.\u00a0 Outflow channels extend to the northwest and southeast.\u00a0 However, as the center moves over land, the circulation will weaken.\u00a0 The center is expected to cross the northeastern corner of Arnhem Land and move back over water in a few hours.\u00a0 The potential for re-intensification will depend on how far away from the coast the center moves.<\/p>\n
A subtropical ridge located southwest of Nathan is steering it toward the northwest.\u00a0 The ridge is expected to continue to steer the tropical cyclone in that direction for another day or so.\u00a0 After that time Nathan is expected to start moving more toward the west and eventually toward the southwest and make another landfall on the northern coast of Australia,<\/p>\n
Nathan is strong enough to cause some wind damage.\u00a0 It could also produce a significant storm surge near where the center is making landfall.\u00a0 Locally heavy rainfall could create possible flooding at inland locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The center of Tropical Cyclone Nathan is moving inland near Nhulunbuy, Australia.\u00a0 At 9:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Nathan was located at latitude 12.6\u00b0S and longitude 136.8\u00b0E which put it about 25 miles south of Nhulunbuy and about 90 miles north-northeast of Alyangula, Australia.\u00a0 Nathan was moving toward the northwest […]<\/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":[93,83],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588"}],"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=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}