Queensland, Australia May Be Visited By Tropical Cyclone Nathan

Cyclone Nathan will form in the next 48 hours. That is on March 10, 2015, a few hundred kilometers off the eastern coast of Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland, Australia in the Coral Sea.

Soon it will intensify and move close to the coast of Queensland. It will not make landfall but hover around the coast near Cooktown, gradually move south along the coast and then move away from land back into the Sea.

Tropical Cyclone Nathan is going to be a nasty little storm. Quite small compared to the gargantuan Pam expected further east in the Pacific Ocean but it may whip up winds in excess of  100 kph on coastal Queensland till March 14, 2015 after which it will swing back into the sea.

Only the eastern coastal stretch of Queensland near Cooktown will be affected. Cairns may experience some gusts and some rain but not much. Cape York Peninsula is in for some heavy rainfall in the coming days.

But after seeing cyclone Marcia suddenly unexpectedly intensifying into a category 5 hurricane for a while a few days ago, one can only keep our fingers crossed. One hopes Nathan will not turn out to be as freakish as Marcia.

Cyclone Nathan is going to give the Queensland authorities sleepless night as it is going to intensify and come towards the coast of Cooktown. But fortunately it will swing away back into the sea on March 12, 2015 without making landfall.

Nathan is going to be a significant tropical cyclone with a central minimum pressure of 979 Mb.