TC Stan moving southeast from Port Hedland
Tropical Cyclone Stan continues to move inland after making landfall near Port Hedland. The winds with Stan were up to around 75 mph with some stronger gusts to the east, but this system looks to be quickly losing its stronger winds. Wind gusts by Sunday afternoon, local time, should be on the order of 35-45 mph. Most of the rainfall with Stan looks to be over the eastern parts of the storm, and most of the clouds with the system are quickly dissipating.
Flooding rainfall with the storm looks to be confined to eastern parts of the storm, more toward the Gibson Desert and well to the east of the western coast of Australia. Rainfall of 1-3 inches is possible with the system, but that looks to be quite isolated with most locations seeing around an inch or less of rainfall Sunday into Sunday night. As the storm pushes into southern parts of Australia for Monday, local time, rainfall should be even more isolated as the system speeds up and pushes off to the southeast. The threat for any flooding will be closer to South Australia Territory and eastern parts of the Great Australian Bight.
Threat for development remains for the Feb. 6-8 time period as the trough continues to keep storms over northern Australia. The threat from this system is still quite unsure if it was to push more to the southwest or more to the south, but at least some concern is around northern parts of Western Australia again and into the Northern Territory. This is the most likely time for development, but more development is possible for the middle of February also as the trough of low pressure continues to spawn weak low pressure areas.
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