Tropical Cyclone Blake brought wind and rain to portions of Western Australia on Monday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Monday the center of Tropical Cyclone Blake was located at latitude 18.7\u00b0S and longitude 121.5\u00b0E which put it about 60 miles (95 km) southwest of Broome, Australia.\u00a0 Blake was moving toward the south-southwest at 7 m.p.h. (11 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 45 m.p.h. (75 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 60 m.p.h. (95 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 989 mb.<\/p>\n
The center of Tropical Cyclone Blake made landfall on the coast of Western Australia north of Broome earlier on Monday.\u00a0 The center moved back out over water slightly north of Broome and then the center passed just to the west of that city.\u00a0 A weather station in Broome measured sustained winds of 30 m.p.h. (50 km\/h) and a wind gust to 50 m.p.h. (82 km\/h).\u00a0 5.83 inches (148 mm) of rain fell over Broome.\u00a0 A rainband in the northeastern periphery of the circulation dropped rain over the area around the Kimberly Plateau during much of Monday.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Blake weakened while the center was over land, but it appears to be strengthening again now that the center is back over water.\u00a0 More thunderstorms developed near the center of circulation during the past few hours.\u00a0 Those storms started to generated upper level divergence again.\u00a0 Bands farther away from the center consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 100 miles (160 km) from the center of circulation mainly in portions of circulation over water.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Blake will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next 12 hours.\u00a0 Blake will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 29\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move through a region where the upper level winds are weak and there will be little vertical wind shear.\u00a0 Tropical Cyclone Blake could strengthen during the next 12 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Blake will move around the western end of a high pressure system over Australia.\u00a0 The high will steer Blake toward the south-southwest during the next 24 to 36 hours.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Cyclone Blake could make another landfall on the coast of Western Australia near Wallal Downs.\u00a0 A Warning is in effect for the portion of the coast from Bidyadanga to De Grey.\u00a0 Blake will bring gusty winds and rain to that portion of the coast.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, a new Tropical Low developed over the Arafura Sea north of Australia.\u00a0 At 8:00 p.m. EST on Monday the center of the Tropical Low was located at latitude 10.7\u00b0S and longitude 137.7\u00b0E which put it about 120 miles (195 km) north-northeast of Nhulunbuy, Australia.\u00a0 The Tropical Low was moving toward the east at 6 m.p.h. (9 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 30 m.p.h. (50 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 1003 mb.\u00a0 The Tropical Low is forecast to move back toward the west and to strengthen.\u00a0 A Watch has been issued for the portion of the Australian coast from Cape Shield to Cape Don including Goulburn Island.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of the Tropical Low could pass near Cape Wessel in about 24 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Blake brought wind and rain to portions of Western Australia on Monday.\u00a0 At 10:00 p.m. EST on Monday the center of Tropical Cyclone Blake was located at latitude 18.7\u00b0S and longitude 121.5\u00b0E which put it about 60 miles (95 km) southwest of Broome, Australia.\u00a0 Blake was moving toward the south-southwest at 7 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":[81,48,2],"tags":[313,982,78,1899,1894,933,1900,1896,83,300,1893,1897,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117"}],"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=9117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9118,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9117\/revisions\/9118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}