Cat 3 Cycloe Hits Western Australia

[Richard Myers]

A category three cyclone made land in Western Australia Tuesday morning.  The area is sparsely populated, but there are large mining operations in the area. BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY

[Ed Sutton]

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Tropical Cyclone Three Day Outlook for the Western Region
IDW10800
Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology
Western Australia

Tropical Cyclone Outlook for the Western Region
Issued at 1:33 pm WST on Monday 6 January 2014
for the period until midnight WST Thursday 9 January 2014.

Existing Cyclones in the  Western Region:

Nil.

Potential Cyclones: 

There is a weak low near 9S 110E, about 450 km east northeast of Christmas
Island, and moving slowly west. It may move into the region (south of 10S) but
is not expected to develop during Tuesday and Wednesday. It is likely to move
west of 90E sometime Thursday.

Likelihood of this system being a tropical cyclone in the Western Region on:
Tuesday         Very Low   
Wednesday       Very Low   
Thursday        Low       


There are no other significant lows in the Western Region at present and none
are expected to develop over the next three days.

NOTES: The likelihood is an estimate of the chance of each system being a
tropical cyclone in the Region for each day.
Very Low:     less than 5%                 Moderate:     20 to 50%
Low:          5% to 20%                    High:         over  50%

The Western Region refers to the Indian Ocean between Longitudes 90-125E and
south of 10S.