Key Factors
- A tropical low within the Gulf of Carpentaria is forecast to turn into Tropical Cyclone Megan Saturday.
- Territorians are being warned to organize for harmful winds, heavy rainfall and potential flooding.
- The cyclone is anticipated to deliver gale-force winds of round 110km/h over Groote Eylandt on Saturday.
Territorians are being warned to organize for harmful wind gusts, heavy rainfall and potential flooding as a second cyclone in as many months varieties over the jap coast.
The warning comes only a month after ex-tropical Cyclone Lincoln crossed the territory’s coast within the southern Gulf of Carpentaria as a class 1, bringing excessive wind, heavy rainfall and minor to average flooding.
A tropical low, hovering close to Groote Eylandt within the Gulf of Carpentaria, is forecast to turn into Tropical Cyclone Megan on Saturday because it slowly strikes southeast, the Bureau of Meteorology mentioned.
“The tropical low is prone to proceed to accentuate because it slowly strikes south and attain class 2 energy on Sunday,” it mentioned on Saturday.
The Alyangula neighborhood on Groote Eylandt and folks throughout the Queensland border, together with within the city of Borroloola however not Ngukkur, have been urged to organize their properties and enact family plans.
The cyclone is anticipated to deliver gale-force winds of round 110km/h over Groote Eylandt on Saturday because it tracks in direction of the border.
Winds above 125km/h may intensify on Sunday and will compound the consequences of heavy rainfall already anticipated within the prime finish over the weekend.
The heaviest falls are anticipated on coastal and island places on Saturday, earlier than reaching additional inland into the Carpentaria district on Sunday.
“Whereas it (the cyclone) is more than likely to cross the coast on Monday it is going to be gradual shifting making each the timing of landfall and depth at the moment fairly unsure,” the BOM mentioned.
The climate occasion will then weaken as soon as it makes landfall and is prone to transfer west via the NT as a tropical low, bringing heavy winds and rain.
Ex-Tropical Cyclone Lincoln dumped heavy rain and winds over the area in February, triggering flood watches and warnings in northwest Queensland, the NT and northern WA earlier than shifting offshore.