Tropical Cyclone Anthony
 

Looks like its the turn of the Far North next and the Northern Territory.....

Tropical Cyclone 3-day outlook for The Coral Sea
Issued at 2:37pm EST on Friday the 21st of January 2011

Potential Cyclones:
The monsoon trough remains active across north Queensland and the northern Coral Sea. A low situated over north Queensland is likely to move into the Coral Sea while the monsoon trough strengthens over the next couple days.

Saturday: Low
Sunday: Moderate
Monday: Moderate

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Tropical Cyclone 3 day Outlook for Northern Region, including the Gulf of
Carpentaria

Issued by the BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY, DARWIN at 2:15 pm CST Friday 21 January 2011

Potential Cyclones:
The monsoon trough is currently located from northern Kimberley to the southern Gulf of Carpentaria and is expected to move north over the weekend. A weak tropical low, 1002 hPa is located over land near Kununurra.
The low is expected to move slowly north and may intensify further.

Likelihood of this system being a tropical cyclone in the region on:
Saturday: Low,
Sunday : Low,
Monday : Moderate.
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Cairns radar look interesting too - good circular movement if you run it on the loop

Tropical Cyclone Anthony
 

TROPICAL CYCLONE INFORMATION BULLETIN
For 8:38 am EST on Sunday 23 January 2011
At 7 am EST Sunday, Tropical Cyclone Anthony (Category 1) with central pressure
994 hPa was located
over the northwest Coral sea near latitude 15.3 south longitude 148.2 east,
which is about 315 km northeast of Cairns and 325 km east of Cooktown Ap.

The cyclone is moving east at about 22 kilometres per hour and should continue
to intensify over the next 24 hours while moving away from the northeast
Australian coast during the next couple of days.

Anthony poses no immediate threat to the Queensland coast.

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Lots of theories on www.weatherzone.com.au as to where/whether it will turn and come back to bite us..........

Re: Tropical Cyclone Anthony
 

Any chance of a hit of the Mackay area do you think Pollyana???

Re: Tropical Cyclone Anthony
 

Totally personal view after disucssions at work today - yep its possible. Most of the models have TC Anthony turning back towards the coast - he has already turned more to the SE instead of due east - and at present he could well come back and impact the coast somewhere. Its not beyond the realms of possibility for him to go further north to make landfall (Cairns/Cooktown) but the consensus today among us amateur cyclone-watchers was somewhere in the Townsville-Mackay-Rockhampton-Gladstone sector is the most likely.

Hopefully by typing that I will cause him to do a rethink and head off out to sea, but.........to be honest until he turns more there's no way of predicting for certain.

Anyone into serious cyclone watching, there is a fabulous forum on www.weatherzone.com.au ,well worth a browse.

Re: Tropical Cyclone Anthony
 

:lol:

Keep your eyes on TC Anthony, Bixie......he may u-turn sometime today and some models having him heading for Innisfail/Cairns....

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ65002.shtml

Re: Tropical Cyclone Anthony
 

Thanks Polly.
I'm watching him.:thumbup:

Re: Tropical Cyclone Anthony
 

Thought you would be.....Wilma needs a careful eye too as she moves closer to Qld.
On this link at present you can see her out to the east beyond the system that is Anthony........
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/sohemi/sohe...hirgmscol.html

Re: Tropical Cyclone Anthony
 

One of me favourite sayings "Wilma, I'm home"

Re: Tropical Cyclone Anthony
 

:rofl:

Re: Tropical Cyclone Anthony
 

Well you seem to have scared Wilma away nicely :rofl: as she is now heading for NZ, but there's another system brewing out there, no bets where/what that one will do at present but it looks :scaredhair: on the models.

Re: Tropical Cyclone Anthony
 

Reckon if it develops it should be called Bixie.

A lot of wind but little gust. :D

Re: Tropical Cyclone Anthony
 

And with a fear of people and crowded places so only coming ashore in an uninhabited area :lol:

Re: Tropical Cyclone Anthony
 

A little trip to Exmouth sounds about right. :eek:

Re: Tropical Cyclone Anthony
 

Ahhhh, off to spend time with Bianca are you? Wonder if she'll come ashore howling "Rickaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyy" :D

Re: Weather related disaster/emergency info thread
 

Ex-Tropical Cyclone Anthony may redevelop into a tropical cyclone during the
next 12 to 24 hours.