Tropical Cyclone Veronica stalled and weakened near the coast of Western Australia west of Port Hedand.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Cyclone Veronica was located at latitude 20.5\u00b0S and longitude 117.5\u00b0E which put it about 70 miles (110 km) west of Port Hedland.\u00a0 Veronica was moving toward the southwest at 2 m.p.h. (3 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 70 m.p.h. (110 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 85 m.p.h. (135 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 974 mb.\u00a0 A Tropical Cyclone Warning remained in effect from Port Hedland to Mardie including Karratha and Barrow Island.<\/p>\n
The southern eyewall of Tropical Cyclone Veronica moved over the coast of Western Australia west of Port Hedland on Saturday night.\u00a0 Veronica was the equivalent of a major hurricane and there would have been a period of strong winds near the coast.\u00a0 It likely caused some wind damage and generated a storm surge at the coast.\u00a0 An upper level trough west of Australia produced strong northwesterly winds that reached the top of Tropical Cyclone Veronica as it neared the coast.\u00a0 Those winds produced very strong vertical wind shear and they blew the upper half of the circulation southeast of the lower half of the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 The decoupling of the upper and lower parts of the circulation caused Tropical Cyclone Veronica to weaken very quickly during the past 12 hours.\u00a0 Veronica weakened from the equivalent of a major hurricane to a tropical storm.<\/p>\n
The strong wind shear also generated an asymmetrical distribution of rainfall.\u00a0 Most of the rain was falling in the southeastern half of the circulation which was over Western Australia.\u00a0 Bands in the northwestern half of the circulation consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Locally heavy rain could produce flooding in a few locations, but the rapid weakening of Tropical Cyclone Veronica will reduce the risk of flooding.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Veronica will continue to weaken quickly because of the strong vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The decoupling of the upper and lower halves of the circulation has resulted in little motion during the past few hours.\u00a0 However, the lower half of Veronica will be steered more by the winds in the lower troposphere.\u00a0 Those winds will steer Tropical Cyclone Veronica toward the west-southwest during the next day or two.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the lower half of Veronica will move near the coast of Western Australia.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Veronica will pass near Wickham, Karratha, Dampier, Onslow and Exmouth.\u00a0 Veronica will bring some gusty winds, but it should pose a limited risk.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere over the South Indian Ocean, Tropical Cyclone Joaninha was strengthening northwest of Rodrigues.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Cyclone Joaninha was located at latitude 17.4\u00b0S and longitude 62.0\u00b0E which put it about 180 miles (290 km) northwest of Rodrigues, Mauritius.\u00a0 Joaninha was moving toward the southeast at 2 m.p.h. (3 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Veronica stalled and weakened near the coast of Western Australia west of Port Hedand.\u00a0 At 5:00 p.m. EDT on Sunday the center of Tropical Cyclone Veronica was located at latitude 20.5\u00b0S and longitude 117.5\u00b0E which put it about 70 miles (110 km) west of Port Hedland.\u00a0 Veronica was moving toward the southwest at […]<\/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":[997,1472,1469,74,979,1439,998,1473,1468,1465,1466,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587"}],"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=7587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7588,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7587\/revisions\/7588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}