Tropical Cyclone Claudia developed northwest of Australia on Saturday.\u00a0 At 1:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Claudia was located at latitude 13.2\u00b0S and longitude 125.4\u00b0E which put it about 155 miles (250 km) north-northeast of Kuri Bay, Australia.\u00a0 Claudia was moving toward the west-southwest at 11 m.p.h. (18 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 996 mb.<\/p>\n
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology issued a Warning for the portion of the coast of Western Australia from Kalumburu to Beagle Bay.\u00a0 The Warning zone includes Kuri Bay and Cape Leveque.<\/p>\n
A Tropical Low moved westward across northern Australia late last week.\u00a0 The circulation around the low pressure system began to organize when the system moved over Timor Sea west of Darwin on Saturday.\u00a0 The wind speed increased and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology designated the system as Tropical Cyclone Claudia.\u00a0 The inner end of a rainband wrapped around the northern and eastern sides of the center of circulation.\u00a0 Thunderstorms formed quickly in other bands north and west of the center.\u00a0 There were fewer thunderstorms in rainbands south and east of the center, but much of that part of the circulation was still over western Australia.\u00a0 Storms near the center of circulation began to generate upper level divergence which pumped mass to the west of the tropical cyclone.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Claudia will move through an environment favorable for intensification during the next several days.\u00a0 Claudia will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 30\u00b0C.\u00a0 It will move around the northwestern part of an upper level ridge centered over Australia.\u00a0 The ridge will produce easterly winds which will blow toward the tropical cyclone.\u00a0 Those winds will cause moderate vertical wind shear.\u00a0 The wind shear will slow the rate of intensification but it will not be strong enough to keep Tropical Cyclone Claudia from strengthening.\u00a0 Claudia could intensify into the equivalent of a hurricane\/typhoon during the next 24 to 48 hours.<\/p>\n
Tropical Cyclone Claudia will move around the northwestern part of a high pressure system over Australia.\u00a0 The high will steer Claudia toward the west-southwest.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Tropical Cyclone Claudia will move parallel to the coast of Western Australia.\u00a0 The core of Claudia with the strongest winds is forecast to remain offshore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Cyclone Claudia developed northwest of Australia on Saturday.\u00a0 At 1:00 p.m. EST on Saturday the center of Tropical Cyclone Claudia was located at latitude 13.2\u00b0S and longitude 125.4\u00b0E which put it about 155 miles (250 km) north-northeast of Kuri Bay, Australia.\u00a0 Claudia was moving toward the west-southwest at 11 m.p.h. (18 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum […]<\/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":[948,1912,1892,1910,975,1911,1895,328,641,1909,94],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137"}],"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=9137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9138,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9137\/revisions\/9138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}