The first tropical low of the season is spinning off the Northern Territory coast around 305km northeast of Darwin. It’s moving parallel to the coast in a westerly direction at approximately 15km per hour.
Coastal areas from Croker Island to Cape Fourcroy are on cyclone watch, and while gales are not expected for coastal areas in the next 24 hours, they may develop later if the low intensifies into a category 1 tropical cyclone tomorrow. Heavy rain is already impacting the coast with Warruwi getting drenched by 85mm in one day. Rain is expected to pick up in Darwin tomorrow.
As I mentioned in my previous post, if this low becomes a tropical cyclone it will be named “Lawrence.”
The convention of naming of tropical cyclones has a very interesting history which actually started in Australia thanks to eccentric Queensland meteorologist, Clement Wragge. For a period, he named tropical cyclones after politicians because he believed that they’re both “national disasters”! Then he started naming them after women since he believed they’re both “unpredictable.” Thankfully, the Bureau evened things out in 1975 allocating both male and female names to tropical cyclones.
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