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Tropical low tracking across Kimberley towards Pilbara coast likely to become cyclone on Monday
A tropical low currently tracking across the Kimberley towards the Pilbara coast is now likely to become a tropical cyclone on Monday, according to the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM).
Key points:
- The tropical low is moving towards the east Pilbara coast
- It has brought heavy rainfall to the west Kimberley and East Pilbara
- The low is expected to form into a cyclone on Monday
The storm, which locals said produced one of the first substantial wet season events in the last three years, had been expected to cross the coast and “quickly intensify” on Sunday, but that forecast has now been delayed.
“Currently the low lies over the south-west inland Kimberley,” BOM duty forecaster Luke Huntington said.
“It is tracking slowly southwards and then it’s…
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