{"id":898,"date":"2025-03-27T21:41:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T22:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/?p=898"},"modified":"2025-03-28T16:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T16:43:14","slug":"parts-of-western-australia-warned-to-brace-for-tropical-cyclone-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/27\/parts-of-western-australia-warned-to-brace-for-tropical-cyclone-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Parts of Western Australia warned to brace for tropical cyclone"},"content":{"rendered":"

T\ufeffhe Bureau of Meteorology has issued a warning that a tropical cyclone could hit northern Western Australia tonight.<\/p>\n

\ufeffCurrently categorised as a tropical low, the storm is moving east at about 7km\/h towards the northwest Kimberley coast, between Mitchell Plateau and Beagle Bay.<\/p>\n

The slow-moving storm is forecast to reach \ufefftropical cyclone intensity shortly before making landfall on Friday night or Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

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It was last tracked 270km north-west of Kuri Bay and 405 kilometres north-north-west of Derby at 5:42am this morning.\ufeff<\/p>\n

Sustained winds near the centre were last recorded at about 65km\/h, with wind gusts of up to 95km\/h.\ufeff<\/p>\n

The storm is expected to cross the coast \ufeffnorth of Derby between Kuri Bay and Cape Leveque, bringing with it damaging wind gusts of up to 100km\/h in coastal areas.<\/p>\n

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Heavy rainfall is also expected, which could lead to flash flooding in parts of the northern and western Kimberley starting on Friday and lasting through the weekend.\ufeff<\/p>\n

The cyclone is expected to weaken as it travels over land on Saturday and Sunday, the \ufeffBureau reported at 2am (local time) this morning.<\/p>\n

Weather warnings are currently in effect from Mitchell Plateau to Beagle Bay including Derby\ufeff.<\/p>\n

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T\ufeffhe Bureau of Meteorology has issued a warning that a tropical cyclone could hit northern Western Australia tonight. \ufeffCurrently categorised as a tropical low, the storm is moving east at about 7km\/h towards the northwest Kimberley coast, between Mitchell Plateau and Beagle Bay. The slow-moving storm is forecast to reach \ufefftropical cyclone intensity shortly before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fresnoforeclosure.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}