Tropical Cyclone Lua
The ABC is reporting on Tropical Cyclone Lua:
Communities on Western Australia’s north-west coast are being told to expect the strongest cyclone since Yasi devastated the Queensland coast last year.
Cyclone Lua is expected to cross the coast in a sparsely populated area between Port Hedland and Broome early this afternoon, local time.
Cattle stations will bear the brunt of destructive winds that are forecast to be moving at up to 270 kilometres an hour.
This is the Australian Met Bureau’s advisory: Lua.
The US Navy’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center in Hawaii is classifying the storm well below what the Australians are reporting, but the Australians have better data, so I would go with their estimates, which make the storm the equivalent of a Category 5 hurricane. The 270 kph sustained winds, is 168 mph.
I wish them well.
