Tropical Cyclone QUANG To Make Landfall In Six Hours Into Western Australia

Tropical cyclone Quang is still a powerful storm with winds of 90 kph Just yesterday it was throwing out winds of 200+ kph. But it is weakening as it prepares to enter the Western Australian coast near Exmouth at 1200 hours GMT today.

Strong winds and torrential rainfall are pounding the area as the storm approaches. The airfield at Learmonth and the town of Exmouth are the most affected.

But as Quang makes landfall the winds will dramatically fall and it will turn into a depression and then a low pressure as it moves inland. It will dissipate rapidly.

TROPICAL CYCLONE QUANG WILL MAKE LANDFALL AND DISSIPATE RAPIDLY AFTER THAT. BUT EXPECT HEAVY RAINS IN THE AREA IN NEXT 24 HOURS

A Vigorous Southern Indian Ocean May Throw Out A Couple Of Big Cyclones In Next 15 Days: Lam Coming To Australia

Update: December 30, 2014

Mother Earth May be hurtling blizzards and Arctic blasts in North Asia, Europe and North America but when it comes to the tropics, the Southern Indian Ocean reigns supreme. This active ocean already has a category 3 hurricane 'Kate' hurtling down south. In the next fifteen days it may engender two more tropical cyclones. Especially tropical cyclone 'Lam' which is expected to hit the western coast of Australia in early January, 2015.

Even as Kate will be in her death throes on January 2, 2015, another storm will come into being in the Mozambique Channel. This storm already exists as a low hugging the Afrian coast. In the next two days it will start intensifying and move around southern Madagascar. This storm may remain a deep depression, possibly a borderline cyclone.  Though this will not move north towards the Mascareignes, another depression (A potential cyclone) will come visiting the area on January 7, 2015. This depression now lies as a 'low' some hundred kilometers SW of Diego Garcia presently.

What is more interesting is the possibility of a big bad cyclone hitting western Australia in early January. Cyclone Lam will form on January 6, 2015 off the coast of North-West Australia between Broome and Karratha. Lam is going to be a big storm. Central pressure of 973 Mb. Exmouth will be badly hit with winds of 150 kph. The storm will not make landfall but move along the west coast of the country. Geraldton and Perth will too be affected.

That is not all. On January 12 a low pressure area will form north of Mauritius and will then start intensifying rapidly. Mauritius and La Reunion can expect a big cyclone on January 15-16.