Tropical Cyclone Quang intensified very rapidly on Wednesday and it reached an intensity equivalent to a major hurricane.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Quang was located at latitude 17.0\u00b0S and longitude 109.2\u00b0E which put it about 460 miles northwest of Exmouth and about 610 miles north-northwest of Carnarvon, Australia.\u00a0 Quang was moving south-southeast at 6 m.p.h.\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 130 m.p.h. and there were gusts to 160 m.p.h.\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 940 mb.<\/p>\n
As Quang moved across very warm Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs), the upper level winds eased enough to allow it to intensify very rapidly.\u00a0 Thunderstorms around the eyewall transported mass upward and generated upper level divergence in all directions, which allowed the surface pressure to decrease quickly.\u00a0 The decrease in surface pressure generated the rapid increase in wind speed.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Quang is a small tropical cyclone and small tropical cyclones can intensify and weaken more quickly than larger storms.\u00a0 Quang may have peaked in intensity.\u00a0 As it moves farther south it will move over cooler SSTs.\u00a0 Upper level wind speeds will increase along the projected track creating more vertical wind shear.\u00a0 In addition, it appears that some drier air may be entering the northwestern part of the circulation.\u00a0 The combination of cooler SSTs, more wind shear and drier air is likely to weaken Quang significantly before it reaches the coast of Western Australia.<\/p>\n
Quang is moving around the western end of a subtropical ridge.\u00a0 As it moves toward higher latitudes, westerly winds are likely to steer it more toward the southeast.\u00a0 Quang could be approaching the coast of Western Australia between Onslow and Denham in about 48 to 60 hours.<\/p>\n
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Tropical Cyclone Quang intensified very rapidly on Wednesday and it reached an intensity equivalent to a major hurricane.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday the center of Tropical Cyclone Quang was located at latitude 17.0\u00b0S and longitude 109.2\u00b0E which put it about 460 miles northwest of Exmouth and about 610 miles north-northwest of Carnarvon, Australia.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,48,2],"tags":[94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721"}],"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=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}